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Mood:
- AtmosphericTouchingCaptivatingCleverContemplativeEmotionalThought Provoking
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Plot:
- AdventurerRedemptionInterracial RelationsMurderDeadlyEscapadesHeroesHopes more...
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Genres:
- DramaHistoricalPeriodIndependentActionAdventure
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Time/Period:
- 18th Century
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Place:
- BrazilJungleWilderness
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Praise:
- Critically AcclaimedCannes Festival WinnerOscar WinnerPrestigious Awards
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Style:
- Epic
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealisticSlow
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Flag:
- Brief NudityMild Violent Content
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The Mission, 1986
English
UK
Profile of The Mission
The Mission can be described as atmospheric, captivating, and touching. The plot revolves around interracial relations, adventurers, and redemption. The main genres are drama, independent, and period. In terms of style, The Mission is epic. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The storytelling is slow paced. The Mission is set, at least in part, in a jungle and in the wilderness. It is located in Brazil. It takes place in the 18th century. The Mission has received attention for being a Cannes festival winner, critically acclaimed, and an Oscar winner. Note that it involves brief nudity and mild violent content.
Summary of The Mission
A visually stunning epic, The Mission recounts the true story of two men--a man of the sword (Robert De Niro) and a man of the cloth (Jeremy Irons)--both Jesuit missionaries who defied the colonial forces of mighty Spain and Portugal to save an Indian tribe from slavery in mid-18th-century South America. Mendoza (De Niro) is a slave trader and colonial imperialist who murdered his own brother (Aidan Quinn) and seeks penance for his sins by becomining a missionary at Father Gabriel's (Irons) mountaintop mission; Gabriel is a devout and idealistic man who extols nonviolence and peaceful interaction with the natives and colonialists. Despite their differences, the two men must unite to save the mission when Spain, Portugal, and the Catholic church begin negotiating their boundaries in the area--negotiations that will affect both the freedom of the natives and the well-being of the Jesuit missionaries who have set up safe havens for them. Director Roland Joffé's sweeping masterpiece is a haunting account of the unjust treatment of the Guarani Indians of South America and the men who fought desperately, in very different ways, to save them. The film features a mezmerizing musical score by Ennio Morricone that weaves a stunning combination of church choirs and native Indian panpipes into the lush images of the Brazilian rainforest.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | UK |
| Release date: | 30 October 1986 |
| Runtime: | 125 min |
| Awards: | Cannes,Academy Awards |
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as Rodrigo Mendoza
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- 03.April.2011
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- by: kurishiler
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