The Mission 1986

The river, flowing through the dense jungle, carries a tortured Jesuit priest tied to a crude, makeshift cross. The crucifix is swept through rocky rapids and, in a moment of both horror and mesmerizing beauty, plunges 70 meters down and vanishes into a roaring waterfall. This scene opens one of the most spectacular films in cinematic history—about a man with a sword and a man in a hood who join forces to protect an Indigenous tribe from the colonial empires of the 18th century…