麻豆传媒团队

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The Mission Film Guide

Context:

The film is set in the region of Northern Argentina, Paraguay, and Southern Brazil in the 1750’s. The Jesuit Order has come to build a series of missions among the Guaraní indians  The Treaty of Madrid, which had been hammered out in 1750 by the Pope, the Spanish and the Portuguese, stipulates that this region, where seven Jesuit missions are operating, will be transferred from the Spanish to the Portuguese in exchange for other territories.  These territorial conflicts were established by the Line of Demarcation created by the pope and agreed upon in the Treaty of Tordesilla.

Characters: 

  • Guaraní natives- played by the Waunana and the Onaní of Colombia
  • Father Gabriel, Jesuit priest played by Jeremy Irons
  • Rodrigo Mendoza- slave trader turned Jesuit missionary (Robert De Niro)
  • Don Cabeza- slave trader, plantation owner
  • Altamirano (“His eminence”) - a cardinal and papal legate (Pope’s representative to this region) sent in 1752 to oversee the transfer of this territory from the Spanish to the Portuguese.