This Thursday's film "Cabeza de Vaca" - Mexico, 1991

 

 

Amigos del cine Latinoamericano
presents:

Thrusday, Oct. 1
CABEZA DE VACA (Historical Drama)
Dir. Nicolás Echevarría, Mexico – 1991
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A powerful historical drama concerning the eight-year long journey (1528 - 1536) of Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, who was shipwrecked in Florida and enslaved by Indians, but who found a career as an itinerant Indian shaman, and eventually, after an endless journey through swamp and desert, ultimately found his way back to Spanish civilization. Cabeza de Vaca's few traveling companions, most notably the Moor Estebanico, helped fuel rumors of the Seven Cities of Cíbola, which led directly to the 1540 Coronado expedition and the first Spanish encounters with the Pueblo Indians of the Rio Grande Valley of New Mexico. Cabeza de Vaca's story is one the greatest personal survival tales in world history, and it made him one of the very, very few people who could fully appreciate the tragedy of Spain's conquest of the peoples of the Americas.

Spanish with English subtitles

Location:
Frick Fine Arts Auditorium

Time:
7:30pm

Email:
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FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!!