Father Gabriel ascends the mountains of Brazil to bring christianity to the natives. He is successful and brings about a golden age among them. Mendoza, a slaver, kills his brother in a fit of rage, and only Fr. Gabriel’s guidance prevents his suicide. Gabriel brings Mendoza to work at his mission with the natives, and Mendoza finds peace and asks to become a priest. The church , under pressure, cedes the land to the Portuguese which will allow slavers in again. Mendoza breaks his vows and organizes the natives to resist while Gabriel warns him to help them as a priest.

The Mission (1986)
  • Rating: (25,123 votes)
  • Runtime:125 minutes
  • Director: Roland Joffé
  • Country:UK
  • Actors:
    Rodrigo Mendoza
    Robert De Niro
    Father Gabriel
    Jeremy Irons
    Altamirano
    Ray McAnally
    Felipe Mendoza
    Aidan Quinn
    Carlotta
    Cherie Lunghi
    Hontar
    Ronald Pickup
    Cabeza
    Chuck Low
    Fielding
    Liam Neeson
    Indian Boy
    Bercelio Moya
    Witch Doctor
    Sigifredo Ismare
  • Genres:Adventure, Drama, History
  • Producers:
    Fernando Ghia
    producer  
    David Puttnam
    producer  
    Iain Smith
    associate producer  
    Alejandro Azzano
    executive producer (uncredited)  
    Felipe López Caballero
    executive producer (uncredited)  
  • Plots: Jeremy Irons plays a Spanish Jesuit who goes into the South American wilderness to build a mission in the hope of converting the Indians of the region. Robert DeNiro plays a slave hunter who is converted and joins Irons in his mission. When Spain sells the colony to Portugal, they are forced to defend all they have built against the Portugese aggressors. Written by mattbballman17
The Mission
  • User's comment:Condensed history by Hasko Starrenburg (hasko@ihug.co.nz)

    While at college I was given the assignment of producing a 30 minute talk on the 'Guarana Republic' which is off course the subject matter of this movie. Hailing from the Protestant part of Europe I had never even heard about this aspect of Jesuit missionary work before, but as I researched the matter I became fascinated. So when I heard that a movie had been made about this topic I went to see it as soon as possible. Knowing how the film industry tended to treat historical events I was somewhat suspicious, but I was pleasantly surprised. This movie instantly became one of my all time favourites. I think the subject matter is handled sensitively and sensibly and the cinematography is stunning. What also impressed me was the clever way in which this story, which in reality spanned several generations, was compressed into a period of about ten years without becoming unbelievable. Even in a two hour movie there is a limit on what one can touch on, but I think that a good balance between dialogue, adventure, action, and character development, was struck. Even so if the movie would have lasted another hour I would still have been happy (perhaps even happier).


  • Quotes: Hontar: We must work in the world, your eminence. The world is thus. Altamirano: No, Señor Hontar. Thus have we made the world... thus have I made it. Gabriel: If might is right, then love has no place in the world. It may be so, it may be so. But I don't have the strength to live in a world like that, Rodrigo.
  • Also known as: La misión (Argentina), La misión (Mexico - imdb display title), La misión (Peru), La misión (Spain), Mission (Austria), Mission (France), Mission (Italy), Mission (West Germany), A Missão (Brazil - original subtitled version), A Missão (Portugal), A misszió (Hungary), Die Mission (East Germany), Fästet (Finland - Swedish title), I apostoli (Greece - transliterated ISO-LATIN-1 title), La mission (Canada - French title), Linnake (Finland), Misija (Serbia - imdb display title), Misja (Poland), The Mission (Denmark - imdb display title),

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