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Cabeza de Vaca(1991)
Status: Released
Date: 1991-10-11
69%
34 Votes
Time: 1h 51m
Overview:
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.
Languages: Latin, Spanish.
Countries:
Mexico,
Spain,
United Kingdom,
United States of America
ProductionCompanies: 
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
Movie: Cabeza de Vaca
Top 10 Billed Cast
Juan Diego
Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
Roberto Sosa
Cascabel / Araino
Roberto Cobo
Lozoya
Farnesio de Bernal
Fray Suárez
Josefina Echánove
Anciana Avavar
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Overview
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.
Release Date
1991-10-11
Average
6.9
Rating:
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