1 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:16,074 Subtitles downloaded from www.OpenSubtitles.org 2 00:01:03,300 --> 00:01:09,261 Your Holiness, the little matter that brought me here is now settled. 3 00:01:09,741 --> 00:01:15,941 The Indians are once more free to be enslaved by the Spanish and Portuguese settlers. 4 00:01:17,422 --> 00:01:21,900 I don't think that's hitting the right note. Begin again. 5 00:01:22,059 --> 00:01:26,341 Your Holiness, I write to you in this year of our Lord 1758... 6 00:01:26,541 --> 00:01:32,142 ...from the southern continent of the Americas, from the town of Asunci�n... 7 00:01:32,341 --> 00:01:36,382 ...two weeks' march from the great mission of San Miguel. 8 00:01:36,663 --> 00:01:41,941 These missions have protected the Indians from the depredations of the settlers... 9 00:01:42,102 --> 00:01:45,183 ... and have earned much resentment because of it. 10 00:01:45,343 --> 00:01:48,784 The noble souls of these Indians incline towards music. 11 00:01:48,983 --> 00:01:52,465 Indeed, many a violin played in the academies of Rome... 12 00:01:52,624 --> 00:01:56,303 ... have been made by their nimble and gifted hands. 13 00:01:58,903 --> 00:02:04,542 It was from these missions the Jesuit fathers carried the word of God... 14 00:02:04,702 --> 00:02:07,984 ... to those Indians still existing in their natural state... 15 00:02:08,144 --> 00:02:12,505 ... and received in return, martyrdom. 16 00:04:38,633 --> 00:04:42,553 The death of this priest was to form the first link... 17 00:04:42,752 --> 00:04:45,954 ... in the chain of which I now find myself a part. 18 00:04:46,114 --> 00:04:49,912 Continue. As Your Holiness undoubtedly knows... 19 00:04:50,112 --> 00:04:54,234 ...little in this world unfolds as we predict. 20 00:04:55,671 --> 00:05:00,473 How could the Indians have supposed that the death of that unsung priest... 21 00:05:00,633 --> 00:05:06,833 ... would bring among them a man whose life was to become intertwined with their own? 22 00:06:16,837 --> 00:06:18,878 Thank you, Father. 23 00:06:21,839 --> 00:06:25,878 It was our territory. Julien's and mine. 24 00:06:26,038 --> 00:06:31,557 I sent him, Father. I have to go up there myself. 25 00:08:46,727 --> 00:08:48,848 Can you see him? 26 00:08:50,204 --> 00:08:51,885 No. 27 00:14:01,101 --> 00:14:05,623 With an orchestra, the Jesuits could have subdued the whole continent. 28 00:14:05,783 --> 00:14:09,543 So it was that the Guarani were brought finally to account... 29 00:14:09,703 --> 00:14:12,784 ... to the everlasting mercy of God... 30 00:14:12,943 --> 00:14:15,744 ... and to the short-lived mercy of man. 31 00:15:24,707 --> 00:15:25,947 Who are you? 32 00:15:32,508 --> 00:15:36,349 So you're hunting above the falls now, Captain Mendoza? 33 00:15:46,628 --> 00:15:48,668 We're building a mission here. 34 00:15:48,827 --> 00:15:52,869 - We'll make Christians of these people. - Lf you have the time. 35 00:17:04,473 --> 00:17:05,712 It's your brother. 36 00:17:27,192 --> 00:17:29,953 - Alonzo, are they healthy? - Excellent. 37 00:17:30,473 --> 00:17:31,754 Good. 38 00:17:32,954 --> 00:17:36,154 - Are there many above the falls? - Yes. 39 00:17:36,314 --> 00:17:38,435 - Dangerous? - Yes. 40 00:17:38,595 --> 00:17:41,795 - Not against powder and shot. - No. 41 00:17:44,156 --> 00:17:46,236 I've seen Jesuits there. 42 00:17:46,435 --> 00:17:48,115 - Above the falls? - Yes. 43 00:17:48,516 --> 00:17:49,476 Damn them. 44 00:17:49,676 --> 00:17:53,037 The mission is to be called San Carlos. 45 00:18:00,278 --> 00:18:03,955 - Don Cabeza. - Mendoza. 46 00:18:08,555 --> 00:18:11,996 Take them away. Quickly. Quickly now. 47 00:18:29,239 --> 00:18:32,759 - You should find yourself a good woman. - I have. 48 00:18:32,919 --> 00:18:35,236 If you had, you wouldn't look so gloomy. 49 00:18:35,397 --> 00:18:38,197 - Maybe you're right. - About women, I'm always right. 50 00:18:38,358 --> 00:18:41,078 - How could I forget? - You forget everything. 51 00:18:41,239 --> 00:18:43,678 - I do, do I? - You do. 52 00:18:57,719 --> 00:18:59,400 Good. 53 00:19:24,080 --> 00:19:26,161 Hello. 54 00:19:26,680 --> 00:19:29,642 - Good. Now take them off. - Excellent. 55 00:19:30,202 --> 00:19:32,362 You distract too easily. 56 00:19:32,522 --> 00:19:36,002 On the day the se�orita can't distract my attention... 57 00:19:36,163 --> 00:19:38,721 ...I'll become a monk. - On that day, Felipe... 58 00:19:38,881 --> 00:19:41,803 ...half the ladies in this town will become nuns. 59 00:19:42,162 --> 00:19:45,481 Pure gossip. Rodrigo is the lady's man. 60 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:48,762 Rodrigo here is this lady's man. 61 00:20:11,564 --> 00:20:13,323 Felipe? 62 00:20:15,525 --> 00:20:18,286 I love him, Rodrigo. 63 00:20:20,043 --> 00:20:22,724 Since when have you loved Felipe? 64 00:20:24,285 --> 00:20:25,682 Six months. 65 00:20:26,482 --> 00:20:29,123 - Six...? - I've been trying to tell you. 66 00:20:29,283 --> 00:20:31,404 I have. 67 00:20:34,125 --> 00:20:38,726 Yes, yes, yes, yes. You have been trying to tell me. 68 00:20:46,606 --> 00:20:49,245 So me you do not love? 69 00:20:51,166 --> 00:20:53,524 Not as I love Felipe. 70 00:20:53,725 --> 00:20:57,525 - Rodrigo, that's the love that I need. - I see. 71 00:20:58,726 --> 00:21:01,605 And so I have no need? 72 00:21:03,165 --> 00:21:05,886 You need so much. 73 00:21:07,166 --> 00:21:09,806 You deserve so much. 74 00:21:18,408 --> 00:21:21,808 Rodrigo, you won't hurt him, will you? 75 00:21:30,328 --> 00:21:32,848 No, I won't hurt him. 76 00:25:11,260 --> 00:25:13,660 Rodrigo, please. 77 00:25:24,941 --> 00:25:27,582 - You laughed. - I did not laugh. 78 00:25:27,742 --> 00:25:29,738 Most certainly you laughed. 79 00:25:29,899 --> 00:25:32,620 - At whom are you laughing? - Don't do this. 80 00:25:33,180 --> 00:25:35,541 Quarrel with me! 81 00:26:05,022 --> 00:26:07,423 Oh, no! 82 00:27:05,626 --> 00:27:09,147 So how goes it at your mission above the falls? 83 00:27:10,067 --> 00:27:13,506 - Insects and twigs, Father. - No converts? 84 00:27:13,706 --> 00:27:15,146 A few. 85 00:27:15,307 --> 00:27:20,626 - And many near to it, thank the Lord. - Thank the Lord, indeed. 86 00:27:21,306 --> 00:27:24,827 - Do you know Rodrigo Mendoza? - Yes, I know him. 87 00:27:24,987 --> 00:27:27,268 Come with me. 88 00:27:28,427 --> 00:27:32,069 I have a task, and you are the only one who can do it. 89 00:27:32,229 --> 00:27:35,668 He's been here for six months, but he won't see anybody. 90 00:27:35,868 --> 00:27:38,789 I think he wants to die. 91 00:28:15,590 --> 00:28:17,791 So... 92 00:28:19,272 --> 00:28:21,709 ...you killed your brother. 93 00:28:23,230 --> 00:28:27,830 And it was a duel. And the law can't touch you. 94 00:28:30,870 --> 00:28:33,071 Is this remorse? 95 00:28:35,391 --> 00:28:36,751 Leave... 96 00:28:37,511 --> 00:28:38,952 ...priest. 97 00:28:39,152 --> 00:28:45,033 Maybe you wish I was your executioner. Perhaps that would be easier. 98 00:28:45,192 --> 00:28:47,712 Leave me alone. 99 00:28:48,753 --> 00:28:52,432 - You know what I am. - Yes. 100 00:28:52,952 --> 00:28:58,271 You're a mercenary, you're a slave trader... 101 00:28:58,431 --> 00:29:02,152 ...and you killed your brother. I know. 102 00:29:02,312 --> 00:29:04,952 And you loved him. 103 00:29:07,394 --> 00:29:11,234 Although you chose a strange way to show it. 104 00:29:19,594 --> 00:29:24,313 Are you laughing at me? Are you laughing at me? 105 00:29:24,473 --> 00:29:26,994 I'm laughing at you... 106 00:29:27,155 --> 00:29:30,036 ...because all I see is laughable. 107 00:29:30,196 --> 00:29:35,474 I see a man running away, a man hiding from the world. I see a coward. 108 00:29:36,674 --> 00:29:38,713 Go on. 109 00:29:40,714 --> 00:29:42,795 Go on. 110 00:29:50,837 --> 00:29:56,396 So is that it? Is this how you mean to go on? 111 00:29:59,756 --> 00:30:02,035 - There is nothing else. - There is life. 112 00:30:02,196 --> 00:30:05,874 - There is no life. - There is a way out, Mendoza. 113 00:30:06,874 --> 00:30:09,235 For me, there is no redemption. 114 00:30:09,395 --> 00:30:13,116 God gave us the burden of freedom. You chose your crime. 115 00:30:13,275 --> 00:30:17,797 Do you have the courage to choose your penance? Do you dare do that? 116 00:30:17,957 --> 00:30:21,517 There is no penance hard enough for me. 117 00:30:25,837 --> 00:30:29,478 - But do you dare try it? - Do I dare? 118 00:30:30,119 --> 00:30:32,597 Do you dare to see it fail? 119 00:32:01,242 --> 00:32:03,441 - Father? - Aye? 120 00:32:03,602 --> 00:32:06,723 How long must he carry that stupid thing? 121 00:32:06,883 --> 00:32:09,323 God knows, Father John. 122 00:34:23,970 --> 00:34:26,891 - Ralph, here. - Thank you. 123 00:34:33,252 --> 00:34:35,171 Father? 124 00:34:36,091 --> 00:34:41,810 He's done this penance long enough, and, well, the other brothers think the same. 125 00:34:42,809 --> 00:34:45,010 But he doesn't think so, John. 126 00:34:45,891 --> 00:34:48,611 Until he does, neither do I. 127 00:34:50,572 --> 00:34:55,732 We're not the members of a democracy, Father. We're members of an order. 128 00:43:58,722 --> 00:44:00,122 No. 129 00:44:00,281 --> 00:44:01,882 No. 130 00:45:02,164 --> 00:45:04,284 Thank you. 131 00:45:07,606 --> 00:45:13,366 Thank you, Lord, for our food and all your other blessings. Amen. 132 00:45:19,286 --> 00:45:21,448 Oh, good Lord. 133 00:45:23,526 --> 00:45:26,446 - Did you cook this? - Yes. 134 00:45:27,647 --> 00:45:29,566 Did you put in all the chilies? 135 00:45:32,168 --> 00:45:34,408 L�m afraid I did. 136 00:45:35,768 --> 00:45:39,647 L�m sorry. I was trained as a mercenary, not as a cook. 137 00:45:39,848 --> 00:45:41,688 - This is true. - It�s dreadful. 138 00:45:42,807 --> 00:45:45,367 - But the bread is good. - It�s not bad. 139 00:45:45,567 --> 00:45:49,368 Father, I want to thank you for having me here. 140 00:45:52,449 --> 00:45:54,649 You should thank the Guarani. 141 00:45:56,130 --> 00:45:58,009 How? 142 00:46:07,009 --> 00:46:09,170 Read this. 143 00:46:14,809 --> 00:46:18,568 "Though I have all faith so that I could remove mountains... 144 00:46:18,729 --> 00:46:21,689 ... and have not love, I am nothing. 145 00:46:21,850 --> 00:46:25,090 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor... 146 00:46:25,250 --> 00:46:28,250 ... and though I give my body to be burned... 147 00:46:28,410 --> 00:46:32,730 ... and have not love, it profiteth me nothing. 148 00:46:32,891 --> 00:46:36,932 Love suffereth long and is kind. 149 00:46:37,292 --> 00:46:39,091 Love envieth not. 150 00:46:39,250 --> 00:46:43,492 Love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up. 151 00:46:51,171 --> 00:46:53,690 When I was a child, I spake as a child... 152 00:46:53,891 --> 00:46:57,132 ... I understood as a child, I thought as a child. 153 00:46:57,291 --> 00:47:02,413 But when I became a man, I put away childish things. 154 00:47:02,572 --> 00:47:08,773 But now abideth faith, hope, love... These three. 155 00:47:08,934 --> 00:47:12,734 But the greatest of these is love. " 156 00:47:18,294 --> 00:47:20,571 They've agreed. 157 00:47:22,532 --> 00:47:26,053 If you're going to become a Jesuit, you must accept my orders... 158 00:47:26,253 --> 00:47:29,974 ...as if they were the orders of a commander. Can you do that? 159 00:47:30,134 --> 00:47:32,695 Yes, Father. 160 00:47:57,014 --> 00:48:00,535 Let us pray for our brother Rodrigo. 161 00:48:01,454 --> 00:48:06,415 Christ, you led Father Ignatius to renounce the snares of this world... 162 00:48:06,576 --> 00:48:11,336 ...and to put on the livery of labor and humiliation. 163 00:48:12,536 --> 00:48:18,697 Now we ask your blessing on Rodrigo as we welcome him into our community. 164 00:48:19,338 --> 00:48:23,458 Teach him to be generous, to labor and not to count the cost... 165 00:48:23,617 --> 00:48:28,418 ...to serve with no reward, save the doing of your will. 166 00:48:28,976 --> 00:48:30,775 Amen. 167 00:48:37,896 --> 00:48:40,297 Welcome home, brother. 168 00:49:05,778 --> 00:49:09,539 This seeking to create a paradise on earth... 169 00:49:09,698 --> 00:49:12,538 ... how easily it offends. 170 00:49:12,698 --> 00:49:14,499 Your Holiness is offended... 171 00:49:14,658 --> 00:49:18,740 ... because it may distract from that paradise which comes hereafter. 172 00:49:18,899 --> 00:49:21,900 The Spanish and Portuguese kings are offended... 173 00:49:22,061 --> 00:49:26,220 ... because a paradise of the poor is seldom pleasing to those who rule. 174 00:49:26,380 --> 00:49:30,262 And the settlers here are offended for the same reason. 175 00:49:30,423 --> 00:49:33,740 So it was this burden I carried to South America: 176 00:49:33,901 --> 00:49:37,381 To satisfy the Portuguese wish to enlarge their empire... 177 00:49:37,578 --> 00:49:41,460 ... to satisfy the Spanish desire that this would do them no harm... 178 00:49:41,620 --> 00:49:43,380 ... to satisfy Your Holiness... 179 00:49:43,541 --> 00:49:47,821 ... that these monarchs would threaten no more the power of the church... 180 00:49:47,982 --> 00:49:50,942 ... and to ensure for you all... 181 00:49:51,102 --> 00:49:56,902 ... that the Jesuits here could no longer deny you these satisfactions. 182 00:49:57,102 --> 00:50:00,381 L�ve spent half my life waiting for Rome. 183 00:50:00,542 --> 00:50:03,143 Stop playing with that. 184 00:50:03,583 --> 00:50:07,383 - What time is it? - Calm down. 185 00:50:07,543 --> 00:50:09,464 Ten to. 186 00:50:10,504 --> 00:50:13,381 Let me see how the children are doing. 187 00:50:13,981 --> 00:50:15,663 Good. 188 00:50:37,065 --> 00:50:39,185 Twenty-four. 189 00:50:40,984 --> 00:50:42,985 Thirty-nine. 190 00:51:07,985 --> 00:51:09,867 Over there, please. 191 00:51:20,388 --> 00:51:23,745 - Those are Guarani? - Yes, Your Eminence. 192 00:51:23,905 --> 00:51:26,626 - Extraordinary. - What? 193 00:51:26,786 --> 00:51:29,906 Very difficult to tell what they're thinking. 194 00:51:30,065 --> 00:51:32,706 - Have you found this, Se�or Hontar? - I have. 195 00:51:32,867 --> 00:51:35,747 I had that reaction when I first came, Your Eminence. 196 00:51:37,427 --> 00:51:40,828 Pretty creature. She'll fetch a lot of money in Lisbon. 197 00:51:40,988 --> 00:51:44,508 Yes. Well, perhaps she doesn't want to go to Lisbon. 198 00:51:44,669 --> 00:51:46,909 Perhaps not. 199 00:51:47,949 --> 00:51:51,668 Well, Your Eminence, as to the missions... 200 00:51:51,829 --> 00:51:56,467 We expect no political difference between the Papacy and Spain and Portugal? 201 00:51:56,628 --> 00:51:58,228 Why should there be? 202 00:51:58,388 --> 00:52:02,707 Between ourselves, Your Eminence, the Jesuits are too powerful here. 203 00:52:03,628 --> 00:52:05,268 Indeed? 204 00:52:07,388 --> 00:52:11,670 - Well, if you'll excuse me, gentlemen... - Your Eminence. 205 00:52:12,109 --> 00:52:14,429 By the way, gentlemen... 206 00:52:15,310 --> 00:52:17,990 ...I myself was a Jesuit once. 207 00:52:28,752 --> 00:52:34,191 So I had arrived in South America, my head replete with the matters of Europe. 208 00:52:34,390 --> 00:52:38,829 But I soon began to understand, for the first time... 209 00:52:38,990 --> 00:52:43,350 ... what a strange world I had been sent to judge. 210 00:53:25,592 --> 00:53:29,755 Don Cabeza, how can you possibly refer to this child as an animal? 211 00:53:29,914 --> 00:53:32,874 A parrot can be taught to sing, Your Eminence. 212 00:53:33,154 --> 00:53:37,395 Yes, but how does one teach it to sing as melodiously as this? 213 00:53:40,193 --> 00:53:41,994 Your Eminence. 214 00:53:43,634 --> 00:53:47,273 This is a child of the jungle, an animal with a human voice. 215 00:53:47,432 --> 00:53:50,034 If it were human, an animal would cringe at its vices. 216 00:53:50,233 --> 00:53:53,153 These creatures are lethal and lecherous. 217 00:53:53,474 --> 00:53:57,075 They have to be subdued by the sword and brought to labor by the whip. 218 00:53:57,235 --> 00:54:00,155 What they say is sheer nonsense. 219 00:54:02,235 --> 00:54:08,276 Father Gabriel, of the mission of San Carlos, from which the boy comes. 220 00:54:08,515 --> 00:54:10,356 And that is where? 221 00:54:15,835 --> 00:54:18,996 That is here. Above the falls, in Spanish territory. 222 00:54:19,157 --> 00:54:23,836 No, that is territory which used to be Spanish. Now it's Portuguese. 223 00:54:23,996 --> 00:54:28,796 - That is for His Eminence to decide. - No, that is a state matter. 224 00:54:28,956 --> 00:54:34,676 It was decided by the Treaty of Madrid and concluded by Spain and Portugal. 225 00:54:34,836 --> 00:54:38,478 But surely the missions will remain under church protection? 226 00:54:38,877 --> 00:54:43,198 That is what His Eminence is here to decide, Father Gabriel. 227 00:54:49,598 --> 00:54:52,038 Continue, Father. 228 00:54:55,677 --> 00:55:00,038 Your Eminence, below the falls, the jungle, if it has to be divided... 229 00:55:00,197 --> 00:55:03,278 ...may be divided between the Spanish and Portuguese. 230 00:55:03,438 --> 00:55:07,519 But above the falls, it still belongs to God and the Guarani. 231 00:55:07,720 --> 00:55:11,920 There's no one else there. And they are not naturally animals. 232 00:55:12,079 --> 00:55:14,880 - They're naturally spiritual. - Spiritual? 233 00:55:15,280 --> 00:55:20,280 - They kill their own young. - That is true. May I answer that? 234 00:55:20,440 --> 00:55:25,919 Every man and woman is allowed one child. If a third is born, it is killed. 235 00:55:26,079 --> 00:55:30,080 But this is not some animal rite. It�s a necessity for survival. 236 00:55:31,000 --> 00:55:33,559 They can only run with one child apiece. 237 00:55:33,760 --> 00:55:37,560 And what do they run from? They run from us. 238 00:55:37,760 --> 00:55:40,480 - That is, they run from slavery. - Rubbish. 239 00:55:40,640 --> 00:55:43,360 - It is well-known... - Rubbish. Your Eminence? 240 00:55:44,160 --> 00:55:45,480 Your Eminence? 241 00:55:45,641 --> 00:55:47,922 Rubbish. Rubbish. 242 00:55:48,761 --> 00:55:50,201 Silence. 243 00:55:52,682 --> 00:55:56,083 In the territories covered by Spain, there is no slavery. 244 00:55:57,001 --> 00:56:00,802 That institution is permitted in the territories of our neighbors... 245 00:56:00,961 --> 00:56:04,680 ...the Portuguese, and is, to my mind, much misunderstood. 246 00:56:04,841 --> 00:56:07,362 But here, in Spanish territory... 247 00:56:07,522 --> 00:56:11,642 ...we run our plantation in accordance with the laws of Spain... 248 00:56:11,800 --> 00:56:14,842 ...and the precepts of the church. 249 00:56:17,323 --> 00:56:18,322 That is a lie. 250 00:56:22,243 --> 00:56:23,684 That is a lie! 251 00:56:26,443 --> 00:56:29,684 I cannot and will not accept a challenge from a monk. 252 00:56:30,724 --> 00:56:34,363 - His cloth protects him. - My cloth protects you. 253 00:56:34,523 --> 00:56:38,084 In the name of the king, I demand an apology! 254 00:56:38,245 --> 00:56:41,884 I want an apology now! Damn you, I won't stand for this! 255 00:56:50,044 --> 00:56:54,164 Your Eminence, we've just seen a good example of Jesuit contempt... 256 00:56:54,324 --> 00:56:57,286 ...for the authority of the state. 257 00:57:08,085 --> 00:57:11,046 Member of your community, Father Gabriel? 258 00:57:11,206 --> 00:57:12,605 Yes. 259 00:57:16,685 --> 00:57:17,726 Come. 260 00:57:19,845 --> 00:57:22,165 - That was perfect. - What? 261 00:57:22,326 --> 00:57:26,087 A flash of Jesuit temper was just what we needed him to see. 262 00:57:26,247 --> 00:57:30,207 - What do you mean? - Be patient, will you? 263 00:57:30,407 --> 00:57:34,368 All we need is a little patience. He knows what to do. 264 00:57:47,406 --> 00:57:51,208 - You will apologize to Don Cabeza. - What he said was a lie. 265 00:57:51,368 --> 00:57:55,529 Silence. You will apologize. Go now. 266 00:58:04,408 --> 00:58:09,289 - What was he before he joined you? - A mercenary and a slave trader. 267 00:58:14,651 --> 00:58:18,128 - Will he apologize? - Yes, he will. 268 00:58:31,050 --> 00:58:34,450 You should know that the Spanish do have slaves here. 269 00:58:34,610 --> 00:58:37,930 They buy them from the Portuguese, amongst others. 270 00:58:38,851 --> 00:58:43,690 - And Don Cabeza connives at this? - Yes. 271 00:58:44,291 --> 00:58:46,652 Profits by it too. 272 00:58:46,811 --> 00:58:51,691 Don Cabeza wants the mission territories to be taken over by the Portuguese. Why? 273 00:58:51,850 --> 00:58:55,812 Because the missions are the only sanctuary left for the Guarani. 274 00:58:55,972 --> 00:58:58,891 Without the shelter we provide under Spanish law... 275 00:58:59,091 --> 00:59:01,573 ...the Indians have no protection against slavery. 276 00:59:02,693 --> 00:59:05,092 They come to us of their own free will. 277 00:59:06,133 --> 00:59:09,772 - Truly? - Ask them. Ask the Guarani. 278 00:59:10,291 --> 00:59:16,012 Nine-tenths of what they earn goes back into the community, into their lives. 279 00:59:16,173 --> 00:59:18,853 Father Gabriel, what do you think is at issue here? 280 00:59:21,774 --> 00:59:25,412 - The work of God is at issue. - No, what is at issue... 281 00:59:25,573 --> 00:59:30,293 ...is the very existence of the Jesuit order, both here and in Europe. 282 00:59:31,452 --> 00:59:36,213 And I assure you that the courts of Europe are a jungle... 283 00:59:36,374 --> 00:59:39,455 ...in comparison with which your jungle here is a tidy garden. 284 00:59:39,613 --> 00:59:41,974 But is that to stand in our way? 285 00:59:53,734 --> 00:59:55,575 Thank you. 286 01:00:05,135 --> 01:00:08,495 - But why must I apologize? Why? - Because I order it. 287 01:00:08,656 --> 01:00:10,936 - It was a lie. - Nevertheless, I order it. 288 01:00:11,096 --> 01:00:15,537 Don Cabeza hates Jesuits and Indians. He and the Portuguese are ruthless. 289 01:00:15,976 --> 01:00:17,937 - Can't you see that? - Of course. 290 01:00:18,137 --> 01:00:21,215 - Then why must I apologize? - What better excuse can we give them... 291 01:00:21,376 --> 01:00:26,777 ...but that one of our order, albeit a novice, publicly insults one of them? 292 01:00:28,537 --> 01:00:31,097 Now, you will apologize. 293 01:00:36,176 --> 01:00:38,896 Or are you no longer a Jesuit? 294 01:01:36,700 --> 01:01:39,982 By order of holy obedience, without reservation... 295 01:01:40,141 --> 01:01:45,501 ...I ask Don Cabeza to pardon my presumption and my insolence. 296 01:01:49,820 --> 01:01:53,261 Well, I accept. 297 01:01:53,661 --> 01:01:55,582 Why not? 298 01:01:55,740 --> 01:02:00,382 But as I said before, I cannot accept a challenge from a priest. 299 01:02:00,582 --> 01:02:04,062 True, which makes my insolence all the more insolent... 300 01:02:04,222 --> 01:02:06,263 ...and your pardon twice as gracious. 301 01:02:08,424 --> 01:02:11,381 Your Eminence, I ask your pardon too. 302 01:02:11,582 --> 01:02:17,541 I ask the pardon of this assembly. I ask for the pardon of my brothers. 303 01:02:17,701 --> 01:02:19,541 And I ask for your pardon... 304 01:02:21,662 --> 01:02:25,023 ...for insulting His Excellency. - Thank you, that will do. 305 01:02:32,384 --> 01:02:35,865 Well, that was most gratifying, Your Eminence. 306 01:02:37,063 --> 01:02:43,105 Do you think you could tell us about your attitude to the transference... 307 01:02:43,424 --> 01:02:45,424 ...of the missions' territories? - Precisely. 308 01:02:45,584 --> 01:02:51,343 I have kept these matters in the front of my mind ever since I came here. 309 01:02:51,504 --> 01:02:54,744 But I do not think I should make a final decision... 310 01:02:54,904 --> 01:02:59,263 ...until I have seen these mission territories with my own eyes. 311 01:02:59,424 --> 01:03:02,585 There are numerous missions that I should inspect. 312 01:03:02,746 --> 01:03:06,705 But I have decided that I shall begin with the oldest... 313 01:03:06,865 --> 01:03:10,746 ... the great mission of San Miguel. 314 01:03:20,906 --> 01:03:24,627 Your Holiness, a surgeon, to save the body... 315 01:03:24,788 --> 01:03:28,065 ... must often hack off a limb. 316 01:03:28,225 --> 01:03:33,906 But, in truth, nothing had prepared me for the beauty and the power... 317 01:03:34,065 --> 01:03:38,307 ... of the limb that I had come here to sever. 318 01:05:15,512 --> 01:05:19,312 - Very impressive. - Perhaps l�m missing something. 319 01:05:19,472 --> 01:05:23,352 I can't see any difference between this plantation and my own. 320 01:05:23,511 --> 01:05:26,233 That is the difference. This plantation is theirs. 321 01:05:36,316 --> 01:05:38,233 This is another difference. 322 01:05:39,995 --> 01:05:46,152 A runaway slave. Bought by a Spanish settler from a slave trader. 323 01:05:46,753 --> 01:05:50,114 I see. Is that lawful? 324 01:05:50,272 --> 01:05:52,593 Supply and demand is the law of trade. 325 01:05:52,754 --> 01:05:55,794 - And the law of souls? - What's a few cuts on the back... 326 01:05:55,955 --> 01:06:00,475 ...compared with what you offer them? Torments of hell? Imprisoned souls? 327 01:06:00,635 --> 01:06:03,475 Think of that, Your Eminence. 328 01:06:09,957 --> 01:06:13,356 Father Ibaye, shall we continue? 329 01:06:52,039 --> 01:06:54,397 What was your income last year? 330 01:06:54,556 --> 01:06:58,638 Last year, 120,000 escudos. 331 01:06:58,798 --> 01:07:01,317 And how was it distributed? 332 01:07:01,678 --> 01:07:05,439 It is shared among them equally. This is a community. 333 01:07:06,517 --> 01:07:10,358 Yes, there is a French radical group that teaches that doctrine. 334 01:07:10,518 --> 01:07:15,838 Your Eminence, it was the doctrine of the early Christians. 335 01:07:15,999 --> 01:07:19,959 Well, I am inexpressibly impressed by your achievement, Father. 336 01:07:20,120 --> 01:07:24,761 - And will that save us? - I hope it may, Father. 337 01:07:27,359 --> 01:07:31,639 The court of Portugal is atheistic, but you and I are Christian Catholics. 338 01:07:31,799 --> 01:07:36,278 - And you serve a Christian king. - Come, I also serve a Catholic king. 339 01:07:36,479 --> 01:07:40,280 You serve the Marquis of Pombal, who is hostile to the church... 340 01:07:40,481 --> 01:07:42,479 ...and rules your king. 341 01:07:42,640 --> 01:07:48,321 I suggest we advise your king to postpone the transfer of the mission territories... 342 01:07:48,441 --> 01:07:51,242 ...until Portugal guarantees their survival. 343 01:07:51,402 --> 01:07:54,842 And I suggest we do this in the hope of heaven... 344 01:07:55,002 --> 01:07:58,522 ...through the intercession of our merciful Redeemer. 345 01:07:58,723 --> 01:08:04,160 In my opinion, the work of the missions is the work of the devil. 346 01:08:04,320 --> 01:08:09,281 They teach contempt for lawful profit, and they disobey the king's authority. 347 01:08:09,441 --> 01:08:12,761 The paramount vow of a Jesuit is a vow of obedience. 348 01:08:12,921 --> 01:08:16,963 Then let them obey. Tell them, Your Eminence. 349 01:08:35,526 --> 01:08:38,203 Am I disturbing you? 350 01:08:40,283 --> 01:08:44,282 I fear I have bad tidings from the Marquis of Pombal. 351 01:08:52,524 --> 01:08:56,765 Between ourselves, I should like to express my personal regret. 352 01:08:59,366 --> 01:09:03,006 He is determined to destroy the power of the church. 353 01:09:05,765 --> 01:09:09,607 And your Christian community is commercially competitive. 354 01:09:09,766 --> 01:09:13,926 Yes. It�s very prosperous. 355 01:09:14,325 --> 01:09:17,404 Isn't that precisely why you want to take it over? 356 01:09:17,765 --> 01:09:22,286 You should've achieved a noble failure if you wanted the state's approval. 357 01:09:22,446 --> 01:09:25,846 There's nothing we like better than a noble failure. 358 01:09:26,046 --> 01:09:30,527 It�s deeply reassuring to a trading nation such as my own. 359 01:09:34,727 --> 01:09:36,688 You're not going to read it? 360 01:09:36,847 --> 01:09:40,728 I don't need to read it to know what it contains. 361 01:09:42,729 --> 01:09:45,246 So, what will you do? 362 01:09:45,407 --> 01:09:48,447 As my conscience dictates. 363 01:09:48,647 --> 01:09:50,527 What else? 364 01:10:22,488 --> 01:10:25,610 He's been in there five hours. 365 01:11:24,053 --> 01:11:27,734 Come with me to my mission in San Carlos. 366 01:11:29,492 --> 01:11:31,973 There are so many distractions here. 367 01:11:33,253 --> 01:11:36,973 It�s hard to see anything clearly. 368 01:11:39,092 --> 01:11:43,974 I think that, there, your prayers might meet with better fortune. 369 01:11:46,092 --> 01:11:51,214 I think, there, God would tell you what it would be good to do. 370 01:11:53,334 --> 01:11:56,774 And he'd give you the strength and the grace to do it... 371 01:11:59,135 --> 01:12:01,336 ...whatever it costs you. 372 01:12:59,418 --> 01:13:01,498 The Garden of Eden. 373 01:13:02,738 --> 01:13:04,818 It�s a trifle overgrown. 374 01:18:02,155 --> 01:18:07,756 Though I knew, in Europe, states were tearing at the authority of the church... 375 01:18:07,916 --> 01:18:10,916 ... and though I knew that to preserve itself there... 376 01:18:11,077 --> 01:18:15,037 ... the church must show its authority over the Jesuits here... 377 01:18:15,195 --> 01:18:19,316 ... I had to wonder whether these Indians would not have preferred... 378 01:18:19,476 --> 01:18:24,795 ... that the sea and wind had not brought any of us to them. 379 01:18:36,037 --> 01:18:39,037 They say they don't understand what you mean. 380 01:18:41,678 --> 01:18:45,918 They want you to speak more clearly. What do you want them to do? 381 01:18:46,478 --> 01:18:49,117 They must leave the mission. 382 01:19:18,639 --> 01:19:21,600 They say the mission is their home. 383 01:19:22,201 --> 01:19:24,359 They must learn to submit to the will of God. 384 01:19:28,040 --> 01:19:29,320 Tell them. 385 01:19:49,320 --> 01:19:51,281 They say it was the will of God... 386 01:19:51,441 --> 01:19:53,921 ...that they left the jungle and built the mission. 387 01:19:55,361 --> 01:19:58,282 They don't understand why God has changed his mind. 388 01:19:58,442 --> 01:20:00,961 I cannot hope to understand God's reasons. 389 01:20:07,640 --> 01:20:10,281 He says, how does he know you know God's will? 390 01:20:14,441 --> 01:20:17,642 He thinks you speak not for God, but for Portugal. 391 01:20:17,802 --> 01:20:22,522 I do not personally speak for God, but I speak for the church... 392 01:20:22,682 --> 01:20:24,883 ...which is God's instrument on earth. 393 01:20:38,563 --> 01:20:42,762 - He says, speak to the king of Portugal. - I have. He will not listen. 394 01:20:48,523 --> 01:20:51,444 He said he is also a king. He also will not listen. 395 01:21:05,245 --> 01:21:08,485 He says they were wrong ever to have trusted us. 396 01:21:09,845 --> 01:21:14,287 - They're going to fight. - You must persuade them not to fight. 397 01:21:16,925 --> 01:21:20,684 I have failed to persuade you to fight on their behalf. 398 01:21:20,844 --> 01:21:25,005 If they do fight, it is absolutely imperative that no one of you... 399 01:21:25,166 --> 01:21:28,925 ...should even seemed to have encouraged them to do so. 400 01:21:29,086 --> 01:21:34,287 And therefore, all of you will return with me to Asunci�n tomorrow. 401 01:21:35,167 --> 01:21:39,047 If anyone should disobey this, he will be excommunicated. 402 01:21:39,208 --> 01:21:42,688 Cut off. Cast out. 403 01:21:45,848 --> 01:21:47,967 Why must they fight? 404 01:21:48,127 --> 01:21:52,286 - Why can't they return to the jungle? - Because this is their home. 405 01:21:54,286 --> 01:21:57,487 Did you know this was going to be your decision? 406 01:21:57,646 --> 01:22:01,648 - Yes. - Then why did you come, Your Eminence? 407 01:22:01,809 --> 01:22:07,047 To persuade you not to resist the transfer of the mission territories. 408 01:22:09,329 --> 01:22:13,449 If the Jesuits resist the Portuguese... 409 01:22:13,609 --> 01:22:16,369 ...the Jesuit order will be expelled from Portugal. 410 01:22:16,490 --> 01:22:22,090 And if Portugal, then Spain, France, Italy... Who knows? 411 01:22:22,290 --> 01:22:25,768 If your order is to survive at all... 412 01:22:25,968 --> 01:22:29,769 ...the missions here must be sacrificed. 413 01:22:36,890 --> 01:22:38,249 What were they saying? 414 01:22:39,329 --> 01:22:42,411 They said the devil lives in the forest. 415 01:22:43,250 --> 01:22:46,570 - They want to stay here. - And what did you say? 416 01:22:46,931 --> 01:22:49,933 I said l�d stay with them. 417 01:25:18,498 --> 01:25:21,817 I want to renounce my vows of obedience. 418 01:25:22,378 --> 01:25:24,218 Get out. 419 01:25:24,378 --> 01:25:27,299 - I want to explain... - Get out. I won't listen to you. 420 01:25:33,859 --> 01:25:36,180 Just you? 421 01:25:36,380 --> 01:25:39,460 No. It�s Ralph and John too. 422 01:25:40,540 --> 01:25:43,860 What do you want, captain, an honorable death? 423 01:25:44,460 --> 01:25:46,621 They want to live, Father. 424 01:25:47,341 --> 01:25:50,740 They say that God has left them, he's deserted them. 425 01:25:50,980 --> 01:25:52,220 Has he? 426 01:25:55,301 --> 01:25:59,100 - You shouldn't have become a priest. - But I am, and they need me. 427 01:25:59,259 --> 01:26:01,380 Then help them as a priest! 428 01:26:03,221 --> 01:26:08,582 If you die with blood on your hands, you betray everything we've done. 429 01:26:08,741 --> 01:26:13,301 You promised your life to God. And God is love! 430 01:31:21,039 --> 01:31:24,039 Weren't you supposed to be on guard last night? 431 01:31:24,238 --> 01:31:25,998 Look what happened! 432 01:31:26,879 --> 01:31:29,560 Get back there with the others. 433 01:31:29,718 --> 01:31:33,040 They've taken three guns, gunpowder, pistols... 434 01:31:33,201 --> 01:31:35,798 ...and I don't know what else. 435 01:33:54,446 --> 01:33:57,766 Father, l�ve come to ask you to bless me. 436 01:34:02,926 --> 01:34:04,088 No. 437 01:34:08,528 --> 01:34:10,968 If you're right, you'll have God's blessing. 438 01:34:12,729 --> 01:34:15,969 If you're wrong, my blessing won't mean anything. 439 01:34:18,129 --> 01:34:21,289 If might is right... 440 01:34:21,449 --> 01:34:24,889 ...then love has no place in the world. 441 01:34:26,009 --> 01:34:29,167 It may be so. 442 01:34:30,808 --> 01:34:34,329 But I don't have the strength to live in a world like that. 443 01:34:41,849 --> 01:34:43,650 I can't bless you. 444 01:37:07,898 --> 01:37:11,299 Down there. Down there. 445 01:37:11,899 --> 01:37:13,379 Bring up both cannons. 446 01:37:18,459 --> 01:37:20,737 Quickly. Quickly. 447 01:37:22,097 --> 01:37:23,737 The other cannon as well. 448 01:40:12,827 --> 01:40:16,227 Indians! Turn around! 449 01:40:17,388 --> 01:40:21,988 Turn around! Face them! 450 01:42:25,475 --> 01:42:26,876 Fire! 451 01:42:58,877 --> 01:43:01,038 We'll have to move the cannon. 452 01:43:01,198 --> 01:43:04,359 Move this cannon. Move it. And that one. 453 01:43:05,076 --> 01:43:07,076 Over there. Shoot the priest. Get him! 454 01:44:30,162 --> 01:44:34,762 - None of us wants to do this. - L�m not interested. Get in position. 455 01:45:26,085 --> 01:45:27,725 Row. 456 01:45:42,446 --> 01:45:43,965 After him! Faster! 457 01:45:51,726 --> 01:45:54,286 Don't let the priest get away! 458 01:45:54,447 --> 01:45:56,087 After him! 459 01:46:05,206 --> 01:46:07,287 Look out! The falls! Halt! 460 01:46:11,487 --> 01:46:13,647 Back! Back! Halt! 461 01:46:23,969 --> 01:46:26,129 Go back! 462 01:53:13,351 --> 01:53:18,352 And you have the effrontery to tell me that this slaughter was necessary? 463 01:53:20,591 --> 01:53:23,672 I did what I had to do. 464 01:53:23,831 --> 01:53:28,111 Given the legitimate purpose, which you sanctioned... 465 01:53:28,271 --> 01:53:34,270 ...I would have to say, yes. In truth, yes. 466 01:53:48,793 --> 01:53:51,514 You had no alternative, Your Eminence. 467 01:53:53,994 --> 01:53:56,113 We must work in the world. 468 01:53:57,794 --> 01:54:00,034 The world is thus. 469 01:54:00,952 --> 01:54:03,992 No, Se�or Hontar... 470 01:54:04,153 --> 01:54:06,954 ...thus have we made the world. 471 01:54:11,274 --> 01:54:13,475 Thus have I made it. 472 01:55:38,760 --> 01:55:41,840 So, Your Holiness... 473 01:55:42,001 --> 01:55:47,799 ... now your priests are dead, and I am left alive. 474 01:55:47,958 --> 01:55:53,878 But, in truth, it is I who am dead, and they who live. 475 01:55:54,079 --> 01:55:57,000 For, as always, Your Holiness... 476 01:55:57,160 --> 01:56:00,841 ... the spirit of the dead will survive... 477 01:56:01,000 --> 01:56:04,720 ... in the memory of the living. 478 01:56:05,000 --> 01:56:08,093 Download Movie Subtitles Searcher from www.OpenSubtitles.org