Film· 1986· Drama

The Mission

by Roland Joffé

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  • Jesuit missions of the Guaraní

The film is set among the Jesuit missions to the Guaraní, destroyed after the 1750 Treaty of Madrid handed them to Portugal.

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The Mission

In the 18th-century South American jungle, a Jesuit priest builds a mission among the Guaraní, joined by a repentant slave trader, and both must choose how to resist when Spain and Portugal hand the land over.

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