Details
| Director: | Roland Joffé |
| Writer: | Robert Bolt |
| Producer: | Fernando Ghia, David Puttnam, Iain Smith, Alejandro Azzano |
| Theatrical: | 1986 |
| Rated: | PG |
| Studio: | Warner Home Video |
| Genre: | Epic |
| Duration: | 125 |
| Awards: | Won Oscar, Another 13 wins & 24 nominations |
| Languages: | English |
| Subtitles: | English, Spanish, French |
| Sound: | Dolby |
| Aspect Ratio: | 2.35:1 |
| Picture Format: | Widescreen |
| Discs: | 2 |
| Region: | 1 |
| Release: | May 2003 |
Features
Special Edition
Summary
Featuring a majestic score by Ennio Morricone and lush Oscar-winning cinematography by Chris Menges. It won the top prize at Cannes in 1986 and was nominated for a Best Film Oscar. The film is shot through with piercing, haunting imagery, pictures of enduring imaginative force. 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. The Mission is a rich and thought-provoking. It contains moving images of despair, penance, and redemption that are among the most evocative ever filmed.
