Cabeza de Vaca

Name: Cabeza de Vaca
Director: Nicolás Echevarría
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Released: 1991-10-11T
Duration: 111 min
Rating: 6.8
Cast: Juan Diego, Roberto Sosa, Carlos Castanon, Gerardo Villarreal, Roberto Cobo

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An international award winning saga of old Mexico. In 1528, a Spanish expedition flounders off the coast of Florida with 600 lives lost. One survivor, Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, roams across the American continent searching for his Spanish comrades. Instead, he discovers the Iguase, an ancient Indian tribe. Over the next eight years, Cabeza de Vaca learns their mystical and mysterious culture, becoming a healer and a leader. But soon this New World collides with the Old World as Spanish conquistadors seek to enslave the Indians, and Cabeza de Vaca must confront his own people and his past.

Actor: Juan Diego, Roberto Sosa, Carlos Castanon, Gerardo Villarreal, Roberto Cobo, José Flores, Farnesio de Bernal, Josefina Echánove, Ramón Barragán, Julio Solórzano Foppa

Director: Nicolás Echevarría

Years: 1991

Country: Mexico, Spain, United Kingdom, United States of America

Quality: HD

Production: American Playhouse, Cooperativa José Revueltas, Fondo de Fomento a la Calidad Cinematográfica, Gobierno del Estado de Coahuila, Gobierno del Estado de Nayarit, Grupo Alica, Iguana Producciones, Sociedad Estatal Quinto Centenario, Sociedad Estatal para la Ejecucion de Programas del V Centenario, Universidad de Guadalajara, TVE, Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía, Film4 Productions

Cabeza de Vaca

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