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- Release Date: 1992
- Runtime: 112 min
- Genre: Action, Adventure, History
- Starring: Juan Diego, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Roberto Sosa, Carlos Castañón ... see all
- Director: Nicolás Echevarría
- Plot: An international award winning saga of old Mexico. In 1528, a Spanish expedition founders off the coast of Florida with 600 lives lost. One survivor, Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca,... Read more
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Welcome to Hell? Nope, it's just Florida !
Sep 22, 2001
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Sep 22, 2001- imdb.com
For the time this film is set, which is 1528, that's a very early era of western exploration (only 36 years after Columbus). I personally would love to see the Americas (North and South) before the full arrival of Europeans. Not... Full review
Dances with Wolves goes Mexican
Aug 23, 2001
Brian Ellis - imdb.com
Aug 23, 2001Brian Ellis - imdb.com
Utterly fascinating movie that doesn't go for the Hollywood ending (ala "Dances with Wolves"). Purportedly from the diaries of Cabeza de Vaca, a treasurer for Charles the Fifth of Spain, the film goes from the brutal realism of war to a... Full review
Beautiful and weird odyssey through Central America 1582.
May 03, 2001
cynandtie - imdb.com
May 03, 2001cynandtie - imdb.com
Amazingly weird (or weirdly amazing?) movie of an odyssey of Spanish conquistadores through Central America 1582. Beautiful images, unseen collection of freaks and outcasts, strong and sometimes disturbing episodes. The plot has a few flaws, but this is a visual movie:... Full review
Spectacular visuals lend the film the power of myth
Aug 06, 1999
peter-209 - imdb.com
Aug 06, 1999peter-209 - imdb.com
One chapter of the conquista - the subjugation of the Native American peoples by Europeans. We follow Alvaro Nunez Cabeza de Vaca's adventures and misadventures in the New World from a crash landing of his ship through his saving and capture... Full review
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