Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 125 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom, France, United States, Paraguay, Brazil, Colombia, Argentina
- Violence
- Mild
The story
When a Spanish Jesuit goes into the South American wilderness to build a mission in the hope of converting the Indians of the region, a slave hunter is converted and joins his mission. When Spain sells the colony to Portugal, they are forced to defend all they have built against the Portuguese aggressors.
- mission
- resistance
- christianity
- religious conversion
- based on true story
- waterfall
- jungle
- argentina
- colonisation
- south america
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Robert De Niro
Rodrigo Mendoza
Jeremy Irons
Father Gabriel
Ray McAnally
Cardinal Altamirano
Aidan Quinn
Felipe Mendoza
- Liam Neeson — Father John Fielding
- Cherie Lunghi — Carlotta
- Ronald Pickup — Hontar
- Chuck Low — Don Cabeza
- Bercelio Moya — Indian Boy
- Sigifredo Ismare — Witch Doctor
- Daniel Berrigan — Sebastian
- Carlos Duplat Sanjuan — Portuguese Commander
- Fred Melamed — Don Cabeza (voice) (uncredited)
- Rolf Gray — Un jeune jésuite
- Tony Lawn — Père Provincial
- Directed
- Roland Joffé
- Written
- Robert Bolt
Production
- Rating
- 7.4 / 10 · 1,594 ratings
- Studio
- Goldcrest, Kingsmere, Enigma Productions, Fernando Ghia Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
