1 00:00:35,584 --> 00:00:38,887 The events of this story occurred 2 00:00:39,220 --> 00:00:43,181 on the borders of Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil in 1750. 3 00:00:55,028 --> 00:01:01,034 Your Holiness, the case that I brought it here, it's resolved. 4 00:01:01,742 --> 00:01:07,999 Indians are once again free to be enslaved by the Spanish and Portuguese. 5 00:01:09,750 --> 00:01:14,461 I don't think I set the tone suitable. Start again. 6 00:01:14,629 --> 00:01:19,091 Your Holiness, I write in this year of the Lord 1758, 7 00:01:19,259 --> 00:01:25,138 ...from the Southern Continent of America, from the city of Asunción... 8 00:01:25,304 --> 00:01:29,517 two weeks away of the great Mission San Miguel. 9 00:01:29,810 --> 00:01:35,316 These missions gave refuge to the Indians, against the worst persecutions of the colonists, 10 00:01:35,524 --> 00:01:38,736 which caused great resentment against them. 11 00:01:38,903 --> 00:01:42,489 The noble souls of these Indians lean towards music. 12 00:01:42,657 --> 00:01:46,284 Many violins played in Rome's own Academies, 13 00:01:46,451 --> 00:01:50,288 were made by your hands skillful and talented. 14 00:01:53,041 --> 00:01:58,920 It was from these missions that the priests Jesuits took the word of God... 15 00:01:59,088 --> 00:02:02,466 to these still existing Indians in a natural state. 16 00:02:02,633 --> 00:02:07,221 In return, they received martyrdom. 17 00:04:35,447 --> 00:04:38,992 THE MISSION 18 00:04:39,575 --> 00:04:43,704 The death of this priest would constitute the first link 19 00:04:43,871 --> 00:04:47,208 from the chain that I now I'm also part of it. 20 00:04:47,417 --> 00:04:51,378 Keep going. As Your Holiness, without a doubt, you know, 21 00:04:51,544 --> 00:04:55,882 little happens in this world as we predict. 22 00:04:57,343 --> 00:05:02,345 Really, how could the Indians suppose that the death of that priest 23 00:05:02,513 --> 00:05:08,520 would bring to them a man, whose life would be so linked to theirs? 24 00:06:22,006 --> 00:06:24,093 Thank you, Father. 25 00:06:27,221 --> 00:06:31,391 The territory was mine and Julien. 26 00:06:31,558 --> 00:06:37,355 I sent it, Father. I have to go there myself. 27 00:08:58,281 --> 00:09:00,492 Can you see it? 28 00:09:01,910 --> 00:09:03,662 No. 29 00:14:26,096 --> 00:14:30,808 With an orchestra, the Jesuits dominated the entire continent. 30 00:14:30,976 --> 00:14:34,896 Thus, the Guarani Indians were finally submitted... 31 00:14:35,062 --> 00:14:38,273 to the eternal mercy of God, 32 00:14:38,440 --> 00:14:41,358 and the short mercy of men. 33 00:15:53,303 --> 00:15:54,556 Who's there? 34 00:16:01,437 --> 00:16:05,440 So now you hunt from above of the falls, Captain Mendoza? 35 00:16:16,160 --> 00:16:18,246 We are building here a mission. 36 00:16:18,413 --> 00:16:22,665 - Let's Christianize these people. - If they have time. 37 00:17:37,320 --> 00:17:38,612 It's your brother. 38 00:18:01,010 --> 00:18:03,887 - Alonzo, are they healthy? - Excellent! 39 00:18:04,430 --> 00:18:05,764 Excellent! 40 00:18:07,015 --> 00:18:10,353 - Are there many at the top of the falls? - Yes. 41 00:18:10,519 --> 00:18:12,728 - Dangerous? - Yes. 42 00:18:12,895 --> 00:18:16,231 - But not against gunpowder and shots? - No. 43 00:18:18,694 --> 00:18:20,905 I saw Jesuits there. 44 00:18:21,072 --> 00:18:22,824 - At the top of the falls? - Yes. 45 00:18:23,240 --> 00:18:24,242 Damn. 46 00:18:24,450 --> 00:18:27,953 The Mission is called S. Carlos. 47 00:18:35,501 --> 00:18:39,338 - Don Cabeza. - Mendoza. 48 00:18:44,177 --> 00:18:47,762 Alonzo, take them! Quickly! 49 00:19:05,697 --> 00:19:09,367 - Try to find a good woman for you. - I already have one. 50 00:19:09,534 --> 00:19:11,953 Do you have it? If that were not the case you would be so sad. 51 00:19:12,119 --> 00:19:15,040 - You must be right. - As for women, I'm always right. 52 00:19:15,207 --> 00:19:18,042 - How can I forget him? - You forget everything. 53 00:19:18,250 --> 00:19:20,754 - Do you think so? - I think. 54 00:19:35,393 --> 00:19:37,145 Very good. 55 00:20:02,918 --> 00:20:04,045 Hello. 56 00:20:05,630 --> 00:20:08,715 - Great. Take them off. - Excellent. 57 00:20:09,300 --> 00:20:11,511 You get distracted very easily. 58 00:20:11,677 --> 00:20:15,305 On the day that the lady stop distracting me, 59 00:20:15,473 --> 00:20:18,142 - ...I'm going to the friary. - On that day, Felipe... 60 00:20:18,309 --> 00:20:21,394 ...half of the women in city go to nuns. 61 00:20:21,770 --> 00:20:25,189 Rumors. The conqueror is Rodrigo. 62 00:20:25,732 --> 00:20:28,651 Rodrigo is this lady's man. 63 00:20:52,383 --> 00:20:54,259 Philip? 64 00:20:56,512 --> 00:20:59,431 I love you, Rodrigo. 65 00:21:01,223 --> 00:21:04,060 Since when have you loved Felipe? 66 00:21:05,688 --> 00:21:07,148 Six months ago. 67 00:21:07,981 --> 00:21:10,734 - Six? - I've been trying to tell you... 68 00:21:10,900 --> 00:21:13,110 Seriously. 69 00:21:15,904 --> 00:21:20,743 Well... You've been trying to tell me... 70 00:21:28,919 --> 00:21:31,711 So you don't love me? 71 00:21:33,713 --> 00:21:36,175 Not like I love Felipe. 72 00:21:36,383 --> 00:21:40,345 - Rodrigo is the love I need. - I see. 73 00:21:41,597 --> 00:21:44,599 And I don't need anything? 74 00:21:46,225 --> 00:21:49,062 You need so much. 75 00:21:50,397 --> 00:21:53,148 You deserve so much. 76 00:22:02,116 --> 00:22:05,619 Rodrigo, you're not going to hurt him, are you? 77 00:22:14,545 --> 00:22:17,172 No, I don't hurt you. 78 00:26:04,931 --> 00:26:07,393 Rodrigo, please... 79 00:26:19,196 --> 00:26:21,948 - Did you laugh? - Don't laugh at all! 80 00:26:22,115 --> 00:26:24,200 There's no doubt you laughed! 81 00:26:24,366 --> 00:26:27,203 - Who did you laugh at? - Don't do that. 82 00:26:27,788 --> 00:26:30,248 Argue with me! 83 00:27:00,986 --> 00:27:03,489 Oh no! 84 00:28:04,172 --> 00:28:07,883 How's the mission going? at the top of the falls? 85 00:28:08,801 --> 00:28:12,430 - Lots of insects and scrub. - There are conversions 86 00:28:12,597 --> 00:28:14,098 Some. 87 00:28:14,307 --> 00:28:19,811 - And others in sight, thank God. - Thank God, without a doubt. 88 00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:24,189 - Do you know Rodrigo Mendoza? - I know. 89 00:28:24,355 --> 00:28:26,734 Come with me. 90 00:28:27,985 --> 00:28:31,739 I have a task that only you can perform. 91 00:28:31,906 --> 00:28:35,493 He's been here for 6 months and doesn't want to see anyone. 92 00:28:35,702 --> 00:28:38,788 I think he wants to die. 93 00:29:17,117 --> 00:29:19,410 So... 94 00:29:20,954 --> 00:29:23,497 ...killed his brother... 95 00:29:25,083 --> 00:29:29,878 And it was a duel. The law cannot touch you. 96 00:29:33,090 --> 00:29:35,384 Are these regrets? 97 00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:39,221 Go away... 98 00:29:39,971 --> 00:29:41,514 Father! 99 00:29:41,681 --> 00:29:47,687 Maybe you'd rather I was yours executioner. Maybe it would be better. 100 00:29:47,979 --> 00:29:50,606 Leave me alone. 101 00:29:51,734 --> 00:29:55,571 - You know who I am. - I know. 102 00:29:56,112 --> 00:30:01,616 He's a mercenary. A slave trader. 103 00:30:01,826 --> 00:30:05,663 And he killed his brother. I know... 104 00:30:05,830 --> 00:30:08,623 And loved him. 105 00:30:11,168 --> 00:30:15,129 But chose a strange way to demonstrate it. 106 00:30:23,889 --> 00:30:28,809 Were you laughing at me? Were you laughing at me? 107 00:30:28,977 --> 00:30:31,605 I'm laughing at you... 108 00:30:31,770 --> 00:30:34,773 because what I see makes me want to laugh. 109 00:30:34,940 --> 00:30:40,445 I see a man running to hide of the world. A coward. 110 00:30:41,697 --> 00:30:43,824 Keep going. 111 00:30:45,868 --> 00:30:48,077 Keep going. 112 00:30:56,419 --> 00:31:02,259 So it's like this Do you want to continue? 113 00:31:05,763 --> 00:31:08,139 - There's nothing more to do. - There is life. 114 00:31:08,306 --> 00:31:12,100 - There is no life! - There is a way out, Mendoza. 115 00:31:13,187 --> 00:31:15,647 For me, there is no redemption. 116 00:31:15,813 --> 00:31:19,692 God gave us the burden of freedom. You chose your crime. 117 00:31:19,858 --> 00:31:24,570 Do you have the courage to choose your penance? Do you dare to do this? 118 00:31:24,738 --> 00:31:28,450 There is not enough penance hard for me. 119 00:31:32,954 --> 00:31:36,751 - But do you dare to try it? - If I dare? 120 00:31:37,418 --> 00:31:40,004 Do you dare to see her fail? 121 00:33:12,425 --> 00:33:14,718 - Father? - Yes? 122 00:33:14,885 --> 00:33:18,138 How long will it continue that stupidity? 123 00:33:18,305 --> 00:33:20,891 Only God knows. 124 00:35:41,275 --> 00:35:44,320 - Ralph is here. - Thanks. 125 00:35:50,953 --> 00:35:52,955 Priest? 126 00:35:53,914 --> 00:35:59,876 Enough of this penance, and the other brothers think the same. 127 00:36:00,920 --> 00:36:03,214 But he doesn't think so, John. 128 00:36:04,131 --> 00:36:06,968 And until he thinks about it, I don't think so either. 129 00:36:09,011 --> 00:36:14,390 We are not members of a democracy. We belong to an order. 130 00:45:40,600 --> 00:45:42,060 No. 131 00:45:42,227 --> 00:45:43,895 No. 132 00:46:46,747 --> 00:46:48,958 Thank you. 133 00:46:52,419 --> 00:46:58,425 Thank you, Lord, for our food and for your other blessings. Amen. 134 00:47:04,596 --> 00:47:06,891 Oh, my Lord. 135 00:47:09,018 --> 00:47:12,062 - Did you cook this? - Yes. 136 00:47:13,315 --> 00:47:15,358 Did you add all the peppers? 137 00:47:18,070 --> 00:47:20,363 I'm afraid so. 138 00:47:21,781 --> 00:47:25,868 I'm sorry... I was trained to mercenary and not a cook. 139 00:47:26,034 --> 00:47:27,953 - That is true. - It's horrible. 140 00:47:29,121 --> 00:47:31,831 - But the bread is good. - It's not bad. 141 00:47:31,997 --> 00:47:36,002 Father, I want to thank you for welcoming me... 142 00:47:39,171 --> 00:47:41,465 You should thank the Guarani. 143 00:47:43,008 --> 00:47:45,010 As? 144 00:47:54,354 --> 00:47:56,605 Read this. 145 00:48:02,485 --> 00:48:06,406 Even if you have faith who can move mountains, 146 00:48:06,574 --> 00:48:09,659 but don't have the love, I'm nothing. 147 00:48:09,869 --> 00:48:13,204 Even if I give away all my possessions to feed the poor, 148 00:48:13,371 --> 00:48:16,499 and even if I give my body to be burned, 149 00:48:16,707 --> 00:48:21,171 but don't have the love, I gain nothing from it. 150 00:48:21,380 --> 00:48:25,593 Love suffers for a long time and it is good. 151 00:48:25,925 --> 00:48:27,844 Love, not envy. 152 00:48:28,011 --> 00:48:32,390 Love does not boast, It's not even advertised. 153 00:48:40,439 --> 00:48:43,067 When I was a child, spoke like a child... 154 00:48:43,234 --> 00:48:46,653 ...understood like a child, I thought like a child. 155 00:48:46,821 --> 00:48:52,159 But when I became a man, I put aside childhood things. 156 00:48:52,326 --> 00:48:58,789 But now faith, hope and love, persist. All three. 157 00:48:58,958 --> 00:49:02,921 But the strongest is love. 158 00:49:08,717 --> 00:49:11,093 They agreed. 159 00:49:13,095 --> 00:49:16,806 If you want to be a Jesuit, you have to accept my orders... 160 00:49:16,973 --> 00:49:20,895 ...as if they were from a commander. Are you able to do this? 161 00:49:21,063 --> 00:49:23,731 Yes, Father. 162 00:49:49,088 --> 00:49:52,758 Let us pray for our brother Rodrigo. 163 00:49:53,718 --> 00:49:58,889 Christ, you guided Father Ignatius in renunciation of the temptations of the world... 164 00:49:59,057 --> 00:50:04,018 and in adopting the garments of work and humility. 165 00:50:05,270 --> 00:50:11,694 Now we ask for Your blessing for Rodrigo, to we welcome him with an open heart into the community. 166 00:50:12,361 --> 00:50:16,656 Teach him to be generous, working without looking at costs. 167 00:50:16,824 --> 00:50:21,827 Serving without reward, besides of the satisfaction of Your will. 168 00:50:22,413 --> 00:50:24,290 Amen. 169 00:50:31,713 --> 00:50:34,214 Welcome, brother. 170 00:51:00,782 --> 00:51:04,703 This effort to create paradise on Earth, 171 00:51:04,869 --> 00:51:07,831 offended so easily. 172 00:51:07,997 --> 00:51:09,874 Your Holiness is offended, 173 00:51:10,042 --> 00:51:14,294 because it can divert attention of the Paradise that will come later. 174 00:51:14,461 --> 00:51:17,589 The Kings of Portugal and Spain is offended... 175 00:51:17,756 --> 00:51:22,093 ...because the Paradise of the poor is It's rare to please those who govern. 176 00:51:22,261 --> 00:51:26,308 And the colonists, here, are offended for the same reason. 177 00:51:26,515 --> 00:51:29,936 This was the task that I brought to South America. 178 00:51:30,101 --> 00:51:33,771 Satisfy the Portuguese who They want to extend their empire. 179 00:51:33,939 --> 00:51:37,984 Satisfy the Spanish who do not want to be harmed. 180 00:51:38,152 --> 00:51:39,986 To satisfy Your Holiness... 181 00:51:40,195 --> 00:51:44,657 ...so that these monarchs do not continue to threaten the power of the Church. 182 00:51:44,824 --> 00:51:47,870 And guarantee everyone... 183 00:51:48,037 --> 00:51:54,040 May the Jesuits not deny you these satisfactions. 184 00:51:54,290 --> 00:51:57,752 I spent half my life waiting for Rome. 185 00:51:57,878 --> 00:52:00,590 Stop messing around with this. 186 00:52:01,048 --> 00:52:05,010 - What time is it? - Calm down. 187 00:52:05,219 --> 00:52:07,180 Ten minutes left. 188 00:52:08,264 --> 00:52:11,267 Let's see how the children are doing. 189 00:52:11,933 --> 00:52:13,685 Very good. 190 00:52:35,957 --> 00:52:38,210 24... 191 00:52:40,045 --> 00:52:42,130 39... 192 00:53:08,195 --> 00:53:10,156 That's it, please. 193 00:53:21,167 --> 00:53:24,669 - Are they Guaranis? - Yes, Eminence. 194 00:53:24,836 --> 00:53:27,672 - Extraordinary. - What? 195 00:53:27,839 --> 00:53:31,052 It's very difficult to say what they are thinking. 196 00:53:31,218 --> 00:53:34,012 - Have you noticed that, sir? Hontar? - Yes. 197 00:53:34,180 --> 00:53:37,182 When I arrived here, I had the same reaction, Eminence. 198 00:53:38,891 --> 00:53:42,478 Beautiful creature. I would win a lot money on the streets of Lisbon. 199 00:53:42,645 --> 00:53:46,314 Yeah, but maybe you don't want to go to the streets of Lisbon. 200 00:53:46,482 --> 00:53:48,819 Maybe not. 201 00:53:49,903 --> 00:53:53,739 Your Eminence, regarding missions, 202 00:53:53,907 --> 00:53:58,743 no political divergence is expected between the Pope, Portugal and Spain? 203 00:53:58,911 --> 00:54:00,579 Why would you have to wait? 204 00:54:00,746 --> 00:54:05,292 Here among us, the Jesuits are very powerful here. 205 00:54:06,250 --> 00:54:07,919 Really. 206 00:54:10,131 --> 00:54:14,633 - Well, with your permission, gentlemen. - Eminence. 207 00:54:15,092 --> 00:54:17,512 By the way, gentlemen... 208 00:54:18,428 --> 00:54:21,224 I myself was also a Jesuit. 209 00:54:32,444 --> 00:54:38,115 He arrived in South America with the head full of European issues. 210 00:54:38,323 --> 00:54:42,954 I quickly began to understand, for the first time, 211 00:54:43,121 --> 00:54:47,665 what a strange world they had ordered me to judge. 212 00:55:31,709 --> 00:55:36,047 D. Cabeza, how is it possible to speak of this child as of an animal? 213 00:55:36,255 --> 00:55:39,300 Parrots are taught singing, Eminence. 214 00:55:39,591 --> 00:55:44,054 Yes, but how do you teach a parrot singing so melodiously? 215 00:55:46,930 --> 00:55:48,807 Eminence... 216 00:55:50,517 --> 00:55:54,313 He is a son of the jungle, an animal with a human voice. 217 00:55:54,480 --> 00:55:57,232 If it were human, an animal would retreat in the face of his vices. 218 00:55:57,400 --> 00:56:00,444 These creatures are lethal and lascivious. 219 00:56:00,779 --> 00:56:04,531 They are dominated by the sword and forced to work with a whip. 220 00:56:04,698 --> 00:56:07,742 The Jesuits only talk nonsense. 221 00:56:09,953 --> 00:56:16,210 Your Eminence, I am Father Gabriel, from the Mission from S. Carlos, where the boy came from. 222 00:56:16,502 --> 00:56:18,378 And where is that? 223 00:56:24,134 --> 00:56:27,387 It's here, above the falls, on Spanish territory. 224 00:56:27,553 --> 00:56:32,474 No, that territory was Spanish. Now it's Portuguese. 225 00:56:32,642 --> 00:56:37,647 - That is what His Eminence comes to decide. - No, it's a state matter. 226 00:56:37,814 --> 00:56:43,734 Decided by the Treaty of Madrid and agreed by Portugal and Spain. 227 00:56:43,902 --> 00:56:47,700 But the missions will continue under the protection of the Church? 228 00:56:48,117 --> 00:56:52,619 This is what His Eminence Come here and decide, Father Gabriel. 229 00:56:58,981 --> 00:57:01,523 Continue, Father. 230 00:57:05,318 --> 00:57:09,865 Eminence, at the bottom of the falls, if the jungle is divided, 231 00:57:10,073 --> 00:57:13,286 will be among the Spanish and the Portuguese, as agreed. 232 00:57:13,452 --> 00:57:17,705 But, up there, it still belongs to God and the Guaranis. 233 00:57:17,872 --> 00:57:22,293 There is no one else there, and they, Naturally, they are not animals. 234 00:57:22,460 --> 00:57:25,338 - They are naturally spiritual. - Spiritual? 235 00:57:25,756 --> 00:57:30,968 - They kill their own children! - That's true, but can I clarify? 236 00:57:31,136 --> 00:57:36,891 Every man and woman can have one child. If one more is born, it is immediately killed. 237 00:57:37,058 --> 00:57:41,227 It is not an animal rite, but need for survival. 238 00:57:42,188 --> 00:57:44,856 They can only escape with one child each. 239 00:57:45,024 --> 00:57:49,028 - And who are they running from? - From us! 240 00:57:49,196 --> 00:57:52,029 - Escape from slavery! - Nonsense. 241 00:57:52,196 --> 00:57:55,033 - It's true, Eminence! - Nonsense! 242 00:57:55,867 --> 00:57:57,243 Eminence! 243 00:57:57,410 --> 00:57:59,830 Nonsense. 244 00:58:00,706 --> 00:58:02,166 Silence. 245 00:58:04,751 --> 00:58:08,338 In the territories of the Spanish there is no slavery. 246 00:58:09,298 --> 00:58:13,218 However, this institution is permitted in Portuguese territories... 247 00:58:13,383 --> 00:58:17,262 and I think it's very misunderstood. 248 00:58:17,429 --> 00:58:20,099 But here, on Spanish territory, 249 00:58:20,267 --> 00:58:24,561 ...we take care of the plantations exactly compliance with the laws of Spain, 250 00:58:24,728 --> 00:58:27,855 and the precepts of the Church. 251 00:58:30,441 --> 00:58:31,526 That's a lie! 252 00:58:35,614 --> 00:58:37,115 That's a lie! 253 00:58:39,994 --> 00:58:43,372 I cannot, nor should I, accept a friar's challenge. 254 00:58:44,414 --> 00:58:48,251 - Your habit protects you! - The habit protects you! 255 00:58:48,417 --> 00:58:52,088 In the name of the king, whose dignity I represent, I demand an apology. 256 00:58:52,255 --> 00:58:56,092 I demand an apology now! I can't put up with this! 257 00:59:04,598 --> 00:59:08,895 Your Eminence, A good example of the contempt of the Jesuits... 258 00:59:09,063 --> 00:59:12,149 by the authority of the State! 259 00:59:23,411 --> 00:59:26,495 You are a member of your community, Father Gabriel? 260 00:59:26,662 --> 00:59:28,122 Yes. 261 00:59:32,378 --> 00:59:33,461 Come with me. 262 00:59:35,671 --> 00:59:38,091 - It was perfect. - What? 263 00:59:38,257 --> 00:59:42,176 That example of the Jesuit spirit was what His Eminence needed to see. 264 00:59:42,343 --> 00:59:46,471 - What do you mean? - Take it easy. 265 00:59:46,681 --> 00:59:50,812 We just need a little patience. He knows what he must do. 266 01:00:04,407 --> 01:00:08,368 - Apologize to His Excellency D. Cabeza. - But what he said is a lie! 267 01:00:08,537 --> 01:00:12,874 Silence and apologize! Now get out! 268 01:00:22,132 --> 01:00:27,220 - Who was he before joining here? - Mercenary and slave trader! 269 01:00:32,809 --> 01:00:36,437 - Does he apologize? - Ask. 270 01:00:49,909 --> 01:00:53,495 Your Eminence, the Spanish they actually have slaves here. 271 01:00:53,663 --> 01:00:57,081 They buy them from the Portuguese and to others. 272 01:00:58,041 --> 01:01:03,090 - And D. Cabeza cooperates with this? - Cooperate. 273 01:01:03,714 --> 01:01:06,217 And it also takes away your profits. 274 01:01:06,385 --> 01:01:11,428 Because he wants the Portuguese dominate the territory of the missions? Why? 275 01:01:11,596 --> 01:01:15,726 Because, missions are the only refuge what remains to Guaranis. 276 01:01:15,892 --> 01:01:19,140 Without the shelter we give them under Spanish law, 277 01:01:19,146 --> 01:01:22,111 Indians have no protection against slavery. 278 01:01:22,942 --> 01:01:25,852 Today they seek us out of their own free will. 279 01:01:26,487 --> 01:01:30,281 - That is true? - Ask the Guaranis. 280 01:01:30,823 --> 01:01:36,788 Nine-tenths of what they earn goes back to community, for their lives. 281 01:01:36,955 --> 01:01:39,748 Father Gabriel, what do you is at stake here? 282 01:01:42,586 --> 01:01:46,381 - God's work is at stake. - No, what's at stake... 283 01:01:46,548 --> 01:01:51,467 ... is the survival of the Company of Jesus, both here and in Europe. 284 01:01:52,719 --> 01:01:57,845 And I assure you, Father Gabriel, that the European courts are a jungle... 285 01:01:57,850 --> 01:02:01,060 ...compared to this jungle of yours here that is nothing more than a garden. 286 01:02:01,227 --> 01:02:04,518 And this will interfere with our work? 287 01:02:15,950 --> 01:02:17,869 Thanks. 288 01:02:27,795 --> 01:02:31,297 - Why should I apologize? - Because I ordered it! 289 01:02:31,466 --> 01:02:33,884 - Why? It was a lie! - Still, I send you! 290 01:02:34,051 --> 01:02:38,999 D. Cabeza hates the Jesuits and the Indians. He and the Portuguese are ruthless. 291 01:02:39,138 --> 01:02:41,340 - Don't you see that? - Of course I see! 292 01:02:41,348 --> 01:02:44,601 - Then why should I apologize? - What better reason can we give them... 293 01:02:44,769 --> 01:02:50,400 than a novice of our Order, insult one of them in public? 294 01:02:52,193 --> 01:02:55,111 Now you will apologize. 295 01:03:00,201 --> 01:03:02,994 Or do you want to stop being a Jesuit? 296 01:04:03,303 --> 01:04:06,723 Your Eminence, in sacred obedience, humbly and without reservation... 297 01:04:06,890 --> 01:04:12,478 I ask D. Cabeza to forgive me for my arrogance and insolence. 298 01:04:19,485 --> 01:04:20,570 Accepted. 299 01:04:20,987 --> 01:04:22,989 Why not? 300 01:04:23,156 --> 01:04:27,992 But like I said, I can't accept a friar's challenge. 301 01:04:28,200 --> 01:04:31,829 Exactly. What makes mine most insolent insolence 302 01:04:31,997 --> 01:04:34,123 and his doubly kind forgiveness. 303 01:04:36,377 --> 01:04:39,504 Your Eminence, I ask your forgiveness too. 304 01:04:39,713 --> 01:04:45,884 And I ask for forgiveness from everyone present. I ask my brothers for forgiveness. 305 01:04:46,052 --> 01:04:47,970 And I ask your forgiveness... 306 01:04:50,181 --> 01:04:53,684 - ...for the insult to His Excellency. - Thanks. That's enough. 307 01:05:01,359 --> 01:05:04,985 That was very pleasant, Your Eminence. 308 01:05:06,237 --> 01:05:12,579 And now, what can you tell us? of the transfer... 309 01:05:12,870 --> 01:05:14,955 -...from the mission territories? - Exactly. 310 01:05:15,122 --> 01:05:21,127 These matters have come first on my mind since I got here, 311 01:05:21,294 --> 01:05:24,673 but I don't think I can take it a final decision... 312 01:05:24,839 --> 01:05:29,426 without seeing them in person Mission territories. 313 01:05:29,593 --> 01:05:32,846 I have to inspect Many missions. 314 01:05:33,014 --> 01:05:37,142 I decided to start with the oldest. 315 01:05:37,309 --> 01:05:41,397 The great Mission of S. Miguel. 316 01:05:51,949 --> 01:05:55,829 Your Holiness, a surgeon to save the body, 317 01:05:55,996 --> 01:05:59,414 Sometimes you have to sacrifice a limb. 318 01:05:59,581 --> 01:06:05,503 But honestly, nothing had prepared me, for beauty and strength, 319 01:06:05,713 --> 01:06:10,091 of the limb that they send me here to amputate. 320 01:07:51,688 --> 01:07:55,650 - Very impressive. - Maybe I missed something... 321 01:07:55,818 --> 01:07:59,863 I don't see any difference between This plantation is mine. 322 01:08:00,030 --> 01:08:02,865 That's the difference. This plantation is theirs. 323 01:08:13,377 --> 01:08:15,336 This is another difference. 324 01:08:17,214 --> 01:08:23,635 An escaped slave bought by a colonist Spanish to a slave trader. 325 01:08:25,846 --> 01:08:27,764 I see. And is that legal? 326 01:08:27,932 --> 01:08:30,350 Supply and demand, that's commercial law. 327 01:08:30,518 --> 01:08:33,645 - And the law of souls? - That's a few blows to the back... 328 01:08:33,854 --> 01:08:38,525 ...compared to what you offer them? The torments of hell! Prisoner souls! 329 01:08:38,735 --> 01:08:41,694 Think about it! 330 01:08:48,451 --> 01:08:51,997 Father lbaye, can we continue? 331 01:09:32,328 --> 01:09:34,829 What were the recipes last year? 332 01:09:34,953 --> 01:09:39,208 Last year, one hundred and twenty thousand escudos. 333 01:09:39,374 --> 01:09:42,002 And how were they distributed? 334 01:09:42,378 --> 01:09:46,340 Equally between them. This is a community. 335 01:09:47,424 --> 01:09:51,470 There is a French radical group who teaches this doctrine. 336 01:09:51,636 --> 01:09:57,140 Your Eminence, it was the doctrine of the first Christians. 337 01:09:57,350 --> 01:10:01,438 I'm very impressed with what you got, Father. 338 01:10:01,605 --> 01:10:06,442 - And can that save us? - It's my hope, Father. 339 01:10:09,155 --> 01:10:13,658 The Court of Portugal is agnostic, but you and I are Catholics, 340 01:10:13,825 --> 01:10:18,495 - And besides, we serve a Catholic king. - I also serve a Catholic king. 341 01:10:18,663 --> 01:10:22,625 Serves the Marquis of Pombal who is madly hostile to the Church 342 01:10:22,834 --> 01:10:24,919 and that, unfortunately, dominates our king. 343 01:10:25,085 --> 01:10:31,006 I suggest that the two of us advise the your king to postpone the transfer, 344 01:10:31,174 --> 01:10:34,052 until we have guarantees from survival of the Mission. 345 01:10:34,219 --> 01:10:37,848 I suggest we trust in the Kingdom of Heaven, 346 01:10:38,014 --> 01:10:41,685 by interception, of Our Redeemer. 347 01:10:41,853 --> 01:10:47,565 In my opinion, and I say this trusting in God, the work of missions is the work of the devil. 348 01:10:47,731 --> 01:10:52,903 They teach with the intention of having property and profit. They are disobedient to the King's authority! 349 01:10:53,071 --> 01:10:56,490 The most important vote of a Jesuit is that of obedience. 350 01:10:56,657 --> 01:11:00,911 Let them obey! Give them the order, Eminence! 351 01:11:20,264 --> 01:11:23,057 Eminence, do I bother you? 352 01:11:25,185 --> 01:11:29,354 I have bad news from the Marquês de Pombal. 353 01:11:37,988 --> 01:11:42,366 Between us, I want to express to you my personal disgust. 354 01:11:45,078 --> 01:11:48,916 Is determined to destroy the power of the Church. 355 01:11:51,794 --> 01:11:55,798 And your Christian community is commercially competitive. 356 01:11:55,965 --> 01:12:00,301 Yes, it is very prosperous. 357 01:12:00,718 --> 01:12:03,888 That's not why who want to get hold of it? 358 01:12:04,305 --> 01:12:09,017 To have state approval I must have had a noble failure. 359 01:12:09,185 --> 01:12:12,730 There's nothing we like more than of noble failures. 360 01:12:12,897 --> 01:12:17,566 It's very reassuring for a commercial country, like ours. 361 01:12:21,947 --> 01:12:24,032 Won't you read this? 362 01:12:24,199 --> 01:12:28,204 I don't need to read to know what it says. 363 01:12:30,331 --> 01:12:32,917 So what are you going to do? 364 01:12:33,125 --> 01:12:36,294 What my conscience dictates. 365 01:12:36,461 --> 01:12:38,463 What should it be? 366 01:13:11,786 --> 01:13:15,039 You've been in there for 5 hours. 367 01:14:15,973 --> 01:14:19,810 Come with me to my Mission of S. Carlos. 368 01:14:21,647 --> 01:14:24,230 There are so many distractions here. 369 01:14:25,565 --> 01:14:29,444 It's hard to see clearly. 370 01:14:31,656 --> 01:14:36,743 I think there, your prayers may have better luck. 371 01:14:38,954 --> 01:14:44,290 There, God can tell you what will be good to do. 372 01:14:46,502 --> 01:14:50,090 And give you grace and the strength to do it, 373 01:14:52,552 --> 01:14:54,844 no matter how much it costs you. 374 01:15:55,444 --> 01:15:57,570 The garden of paradise. 375 01:15:58,905 --> 01:16:01,073 A bit exaggerated. 376 01:21:11,120 --> 01:21:16,958 Although I knew that, throughout Europe, States fought the authority of the Church, 377 01:21:17,126 --> 01:21:20,253 and although I knew it to defend yourself there, 378 01:21:20,420 --> 01:21:24,509 the Church has to show authority about the Jesuits here... 379 01:21:24,676 --> 01:21:28,971 I couldn't help but wonder if these Indians would not have preferred... 380 01:21:29,180 --> 01:21:34,685 that the sea and the winds never had brought it here. 381 01:21:46,447 --> 01:21:49,574 They say they don't understand what do you mean. 382 01:21:52,328 --> 01:21:56,748 They ask you to say it clearly whatever they do. 383 01:21:57,331 --> 01:22:00,083 They have to leave the Mission. 384 01:22:30,863 --> 01:22:33,950 They say they don't want to leave the Mission because it is their home. 385 01:22:34,575 --> 01:22:36,828 They have to learn to submit to the will of God. 386 01:22:40,624 --> 01:22:42,001 Tell them. 387 01:23:02,854 --> 01:23:04,896 They respond that it was God's will... 388 01:23:05,063 --> 01:23:07,649 ...who came out of the jungle and built the Mission. 389 01:23:09,151 --> 01:23:12,194 They don't understand why it is that God changed his mind. 390 01:23:12,361 --> 01:23:14,990 It's not up to me to understand God's reasons. 391 01:23:21,955 --> 01:23:24,706 And how will he know if you Do you know God's will? 392 01:23:29,046 --> 01:23:32,381 He thinks he's not talking about name of God, but of the Portuguese. 393 01:23:32,547 --> 01:23:37,469 Personally, I do not speak in the name of God, I speak on behalf of the Church... 394 01:23:37,636 --> 01:23:39,931 which is God's instrument on Earth. 395 01:23:54,194 --> 01:23:58,574 - He asks why he doesn't speak to the king of Portugal. - I already spoke and he didn't listen to me. 396 01:24:04,578 --> 01:24:07,624 He says he is also king and he doesn't listen to him either. 397 01:24:22,011 --> 01:24:25,390 Say they did wrong for having trusted us. 398 01:24:26,809 --> 01:24:31,440 - And they will fight. - You have to convince them not to fight. 399 01:24:34,191 --> 01:24:38,111 I failed to convince you fighting on their behalf. 400 01:24:38,320 --> 01:24:42,614 If they fight it is imperative that they do not It seems like any of you... 401 01:24:42,781 --> 01:24:46,702 ...encouraged them to do so. 402 01:24:46,870 --> 01:24:52,292 So tomorrow they come back all with me to Asunción. 403 01:24:53,208 --> 01:24:57,295 If anyone disobeys, they will be excommunicated. 404 01:24:57,462 --> 01:25:01,449 Isolated and expelled. 405 01:25:04,344 --> 01:25:06,555 Why should they fight? 406 01:25:06,723 --> 01:25:11,060 - Why don't you go back to the jungle? - Because this is their home. 407 01:25:13,186 --> 01:25:16,522 I knew this was going to be your decision? 408 01:25:16,690 --> 01:25:20,860 - You knew. - Then why did you come, Eminence? 409 01:25:21,027 --> 01:25:26,448 To convince you not to resist the transfer of Mission territories. 410 01:25:28,869 --> 01:25:33,121 If the Jesuits resist to the Portuguese... 411 01:25:33,288 --> 01:25:36,166 the Society of Jesus will be expelled from Portugal. 412 01:25:36,333 --> 01:25:42,172 And, after Portugal, Spain, France, Italy and who knows? 413 01:25:42,340 --> 01:25:46,009 For your order to survive... 414 01:25:46,176 --> 01:25:50,180 ...the missions here have to be sacrificed. 415 01:25:57,604 --> 01:25:58,979 What were they saying? 416 01:26:00,148 --> 01:26:03,360 Who don't return to the forest, because the devil lives there. 417 01:26:04,194 --> 01:26:07,695 - They want to stay here. - What did you tell them? 418 01:26:08,071 --> 01:26:11,157 That stayed with them. 419 01:28:46,100 --> 01:28:49,561 I want to give up my vows of obedience. 420 01:28:50,145 --> 01:28:52,062 Get out of here. 421 01:28:52,229 --> 01:28:55,275 - I want to explain... - Go away. I don't want to hear you. 422 01:29:02,115 --> 01:29:04,576 Is it just you? 423 01:29:04,741 --> 01:29:07,953 There's also Ralph and John. 424 01:29:09,078 --> 01:29:12,539 What do you want, captain? An honorable death? 425 01:29:13,166 --> 01:29:15,419 They want to live, Father! 426 01:29:16,170 --> 01:29:19,756 They say God left them! Who abandoned them! 427 01:29:19,965 --> 01:29:21,258 And truth? 428 01:29:24,469 --> 01:29:28,430 - You shouldn't have become a friar. - But I am and they need me! 429 01:29:28,598 --> 01:29:30,808 So you help them as a priest. 430 01:29:32,727 --> 01:29:38,316 If you die with your hands dirty blood, you betray everything we did. 431 01:29:38,484 --> 01:29:43,277 You promised your life to God! And God is love! 432 01:35:04,128 --> 01:35:07,296 Soldier, you shouldn't be on guard last night? 433 01:35:07,464 --> 01:35:09,299 Look what happened! 434 01:35:10,216 --> 01:35:13,010 Go back there with the others! 435 01:35:13,178 --> 01:35:16,641 They took 3 weapons, gunpowder, pistols... 436 01:35:16,849 --> 01:35:19,518 and I don't know what else! 437 01:37:44,115 --> 01:37:47,576 Father, I came to ask for your blessing. 438 01:37:52,956 --> 01:37:54,166 No. 439 01:37:58,794 --> 01:38:01,339 If you're right, you will have God's blessing. 440 01:38:03,175 --> 01:38:06,553 If you don't have it, my blessing it won't be of any use to you. 441 01:38:08,803 --> 01:38:12,099 If strength is reason... 442 01:38:12,267 --> 01:38:15,855 so love doesn't have place in this world. 443 01:38:17,022 --> 01:38:20,316 It could be like that. 444 01:38:22,026 --> 01:38:25,695 But I don't have the strength to live in a world like that! 445 01:38:33,536 --> 01:38:35,413 I can't bless you. 446 01:41:05,536 --> 01:41:09,080 Stop there! Stop there! 447 01:41:09,706 --> 01:41:11,250 Bring both cannons! 448 01:41:16,548 --> 01:41:18,925 Quickly! 449 01:41:20,302 --> 01:41:22,012 The other cannon too! 450 01:44:18,347 --> 01:44:21,933 Indians! Turn around! 451 01:44:23,143 --> 01:44:27,939 Turn around! Face us! 452 01:46:36,687 --> 01:46:38,146 Shoot! 453 01:47:11,512 --> 01:47:13,723 We have to move the cannon! 454 01:47:13,931 --> 01:47:17,226 Move the cannon! 455 01:47:17,935 --> 01:47:20,062 Catch the friar! 456 01:48:46,729 --> 01:48:51,483 - None of us want to do this. - I don't care. Take your positions! 457 01:49:44,993 --> 01:49:46,702 Already. 458 01:50:02,051 --> 01:50:03,635 Behind him! Fast! 459 01:50:11,726 --> 01:50:14,395 Don't let the friar escape! 460 01:50:14,562 --> 01:50:16,315 Behind him! 461 01:50:25,782 --> 01:50:27,950 Careful! The falls! Help! 462 01:50:32,330 --> 01:50:34,623 Back! Back! 463 01:50:45,341 --> 01:50:47,593 Back! 464 01:57:52,252 --> 01:57:57,463 And he has the nerve to tell me that this massacre was necessary? 465 01:57:59,800 --> 01:58:03,011 I did what I had to do. 466 01:58:03,178 --> 01:58:07,640 With a view to the legitimate purpose that you sanctioned... 467 01:58:07,807 --> 01:58:13,814 I had to say yes. Actually, yes. 468 01:58:29,202 --> 01:58:32,038 There was no alternative, Eminence. 469 01:58:34,624 --> 01:58:37,222 We have to work in the world. 470 01:58:38,586 --> 01:58:40,923 The world is like that. 471 01:58:41,882 --> 01:58:45,052 No, sir. Hontar... 472 01:58:45,262 --> 01:58:48,140 We made the world like this. 473 01:58:52,641 --> 01:58:54,935 I did it like this. 474 02:00:23,896 --> 02:00:27,065 Therefore, Your Holiness, 475 02:00:27,232 --> 02:00:33,239 now your priests have been dead and I'm still alive. 476 02:00:33,448 --> 02:00:38,911 But in fact, it was I who died, and they are still alive. 477 02:00:39,828 --> 02:00:42,872 Because, as always, Your Holiness, 478 02:00:43,080 --> 02:00:46,917 the spirit of the dead survives, 479 02:00:47,085 --> 02:00:50,923 in the memory of the living. 480 02:00:54,984 --> 02:00:59,025 The Indians of South America still fight to defend their lands and culture. 481 02:00:59,028 --> 02:01:01,680 Many of the priests, that based on faith and love, 482 02:01:01,672 --> 02:01:06,698 continue to support indigenous rights for justice, they do it with their lives. 483 02:01:07,323 --> 02:01:11,976 "The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness will not overcome." John, Chapter 1, Verse 5