Cabeza de Vaca (Film)
- Juan Diego: Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
- Daniel Giménez Cacho: Dorantes
- Roberto Sosa: Cascabel / Araino
- Castañón Carlos Castillo
- Gerardo Villarreal: Estebanico
- Roberto Cobo: Lozoya
- Jose Flores: Malacosa
- Eli ' Chupadera ' Machuca: Sorcerer
- Farnesio de Bernal Fray Suárez
- Josefina echanove: Anciana Avavar
Cabeza de Vaca is a Mexican film biography of the year 1991. Directed by Nicolás Echevarría history film tells a part of the life of the conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca. In Germany he is also known under the title The Adventures of Cabeza de Vaca.
Action
The Spanish explorer Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca lived about 1490 to 1557, was a member of the expedition of Pánfilo de Narváez, who experienced a crushing defeat against the Indians in Florida after they go ashore in today's Tampa Bay.
Cabeza de Vaca and a small group of men can save themselves from the attacks of the Indians, in which they build five barges and thus to flee the country. These barges they sail past on the coast of present-day Florida along to the west, at the mouth of the Mississippi, with the aim of Mexico. But on the coast of Texas, on the island today Galviston, the journey of the conquistadors After ending in 1528th initially good treatment, the Indians kill most of the half-starved Spaniards and take the rest of the team caught. Cabeza de Vaca is given as a slave to a medicine man and learns his craft. After years of captivity he meets the last survivors of the expedition again. Together the four men decide to escape and begins a road movie in a time when there were no roads. This was the beginning of the first crossing of the American continent by Europeans. The small group living in different Indian tribes and Cabeza de Vaca made his way as a healer. Soon he may have actual cures and so he and his companions from the Indians are highly regarded as holy men and accompanied by lots of people on their way to the west. The film ends in 1536 with the arrival of the group in Culiacan, on the Pacific coast of Mexico.
Background
The film was shot The Álvar Núñez Cabeza shipwrecks of de Vaca from 1542 for the book. Although filmed as a feature film, he tells the story of the conquistadors in documentary precision and adheres to the historical facts of the life of men. The style of the film is simple and it is not hard to follow the action in the Spanish original, even if you do not speak the language. Sometimes Nicolás Echevarría is a hallucinatory images to describe the transformation of the conquistador a true healer.
In the competition of the Berlinale, the film was shown in 1991. TV Title: "The Adventures of Cabeza de Vaca ."
There is an abridged version of the original 95 minutes on 112 minute film, in which the unoccupied by Cabeza de Vaca and report in accordance with critics controversial cannibal scenes at the stake at the Blue Amazons were canceled out.
Criticism
" Influenced by humanistic commitment, the film shows the problem of inculturation, taking the cross of Christianity is still considered in the metaphorical final sequence as a sign of exploitation and oppression. It impresses with its blend of documentary footage and acting a surreal, the magical- animistic mindset of the Indians committed narrative form. "