1 00:00:54,517 --> 00:01:00,731 Your Holiness, the little matter that brought me here is now settled. 2 00:01:01,233 --> 00:01:07,696 The Indians are free to be enslaved by the Spanish and Portuguese settlers. 3 00:01:09,241 --> 00:01:13,953 I don't think that's hitting the right note. Begin again. 4 00:01:14,120 --> 00:01:18,582 Your Holiness, I write to you in this year of our Lord 1758... 5 00:01:18,750 --> 00:01:24,630 ...from the southern continent of the Americas, from the town of Asunción... 6 00:01:24,798 --> 00:01:29,009 ...two weeks' march from the great mission of San Miguel. 7 00:01:29,302 --> 00:01:34,848 The missions have protected the Indians from the depredations of the settlers... 8 00:01:35,016 --> 00:01:38,185 ...and have earned much resentment because of it. 9 00:01:38,353 --> 00:01:41,981 The noble souls of these Indians incline towards music. 10 00:01:42,148 --> 00:01:45,776 Indeed, many a violin played in the academies of Rome... 11 00:01:45,944 --> 00:01:49,780 ...have been made by their nimble and gifted hands. 12 00:01:52,534 --> 00:01:58,372 It was from these missions the Jesuit fathers carried the word of God... 13 00:01:58,540 --> 00:02:01,959 ...to those Indians still existing in their natural state... 14 00:02:02,127 --> 00:02:06,714 ...and received in return... martyrdom. 15 00:04:39,033 --> 00:04:43,162 The death of this priest was to form the first link... 16 00:04:43,329 --> 00:04:46,707 ...in the chain of which I now find myself a part. 17 00:04:46,875 --> 00:04:50,836 Continue. As Your Holiness undoubtedly knows... 18 00:04:51,004 --> 00:04:55,340 ...little in this world unfolds as we predict. 19 00:04:56,801 --> 00:05:01,805 How could the Indians have supposed that the death of that unsung priest... 20 00:05:01,973 --> 00:05:08,437 ...would bring them a man whose life was to become intertwined with theirs? 21 00:06:21,469 --> 00:06:23,554 Thank you, Father. 22 00:06:26,641 --> 00:06:30,852 It was our territory. Julien's and mine. 23 00:06:31,020 --> 00:06:36,817 I sent him, Father. I have to go up there myself. 24 00:08:57,709 --> 00:08:59,960 Can you see him? 25 00:09:01,337 --> 00:09:03,130 No. 26 00:14:25,494 --> 00:14:27,037 With an orchestra... 27 00:14:27,204 --> 00:14:30,206 ...the Jesuits could have subdued the whole continent. 28 00:14:30,374 --> 00:14:34,294 So it was that the Guarani were brought finally to account... 29 00:14:34,462 --> 00:14:37,672 ...to the everlasting mercy of God... 30 00:14:37,840 --> 00:14:40,800 ...and to the short-lived mercy of man. 31 00:15:52,706 --> 00:15:53,957 Who are you? 32 00:16:00,840 --> 00:16:04,843 So you're hunting above the falls now, Captain Mendoza? 33 00:16:15,563 --> 00:16:17,647 We're building a mission here. 34 00:16:17,815 --> 00:16:22,068 - We'll make Christians of these people. - If you have the time. 35 00:16:48,637 --> 00:16:51,890 Manuel! Manuel! 36 00:16:53,100 --> 00:16:55,310 Manuel! 37 00:17:36,685 --> 00:17:37,977 It's your brother. 38 00:18:00,376 --> 00:18:03,253 - Alonzo, are they healthy? - Excellent. 39 00:18:03,837 --> 00:18:05,171 Good. 40 00:18:06,382 --> 00:18:09,717 - Are there many above the falls? - Yes. 41 00:18:09,885 --> 00:18:12,095 - Dangerous? - Yes. 42 00:18:12,263 --> 00:18:15,598 - Not against powder and shot. - No. 43 00:18:18,060 --> 00:18:20,270 I've seen Jesuits there. 44 00:18:20,437 --> 00:18:22,188 - Above the falls? - Yes. 45 00:18:22,606 --> 00:18:23,648 Damn them. 46 00:18:23,816 --> 00:18:27,360 The mission is to be called San Carlos. 47 00:18:34,868 --> 00:18:38,705 - Don Cabeza. - Mendoza. 48 00:18:39,373 --> 00:18:43,376 Alonzo! Alonzo! 49 00:18:43,544 --> 00:18:47,130 Take them away. Quickly. Quickly now. 50 00:19:05,065 --> 00:19:07,608 You should find a good woman. 51 00:19:07,776 --> 00:19:08,901 I have. 52 00:19:09,069 --> 00:19:11,321 If you had, you wouldn't look so gloomy. 53 00:19:11,488 --> 00:19:14,407 - Maybe you're right. - About women, I'm always right. 54 00:19:14,575 --> 00:19:17,410 - How could I forget? - You forget everything. 55 00:19:17,578 --> 00:19:20,121 - I do, do I? - You do. 56 00:19:34,762 --> 00:19:36,512 Good. 57 00:19:40,267 --> 00:19:43,686 Good. Whoa! 58 00:20:02,289 --> 00:20:04,457 Hello. 59 00:20:04,958 --> 00:20:08,086 - Good. Now take them off. - Ah. 60 00:20:08,629 --> 00:20:10,880 You distract too easily. 61 00:20:11,048 --> 00:20:14,675 On the day the señorita can't distract my attention... 62 00:20:14,843 --> 00:20:17,512 - ...I'll become a monk. - On that day, Felipe... 63 00:20:17,679 --> 00:20:20,765 ...half the ladies in this town will become nuns. 64 00:20:21,141 --> 00:20:24,560 Pure gossip. Rodrigo is the lady's man. 65 00:20:25,104 --> 00:20:27,980 Rodrigo here is this lady's man. 66 00:20:51,755 --> 00:20:53,631 Felipe? 67 00:20:55,884 --> 00:20:58,803 I love him, Rodrigo. 68 00:21:00,597 --> 00:21:03,391 Since when have you loved Felipe? 69 00:21:05,018 --> 00:21:06,519 Six months. 70 00:21:06,728 --> 00:21:10,064 - Six--? - I've been trying to tell you. 71 00:21:10,232 --> 00:21:12,483 I have. 72 00:21:15,279 --> 00:21:20,074 Yes, yes, yes, yes. You have been trying to tell me. 73 00:21:20,951 --> 00:21:22,535 Huh. 74 00:21:28,292 --> 00:21:31,043 So me you do not love? 75 00:21:33,046 --> 00:21:35,548 Not as I love Felipe. 76 00:21:35,716 --> 00:21:39,719 - Rodrigo, that's the love that I need. - I see. 77 00:21:40,929 --> 00:21:43,973 And so I have no need? 78 00:21:45,559 --> 00:21:48,394 You need so much. 79 00:21:49,730 --> 00:21:52,523 You deserve so much. 80 00:22:01,450 --> 00:22:04,994 Rodrigo, you won't hurt him, will you? 81 00:22:13,921 --> 00:22:16,547 No, I won't hurt him. 82 00:25:46,466 --> 00:25:50,720 Rodrigo! Rodrigo! 83 00:26:04,234 --> 00:26:06,736 Rodrigo, please. 84 00:26:18,498 --> 00:26:21,292 - You laughed. - I did not laugh. 85 00:26:21,460 --> 00:26:23,502 - Most certainly you did. - Rodrigo, please. 86 00:26:23,670 --> 00:26:25,671 - At whom are you laughing? - Don't do this. 87 00:26:25,839 --> 00:26:29,550 Rodrigo! Quarrel with me! 88 00:27:00,332 --> 00:27:02,792 Oh, no! 89 00:28:03,478 --> 00:28:07,189 So how goes it at your mission above the falls? 90 00:28:08,108 --> 00:28:11,735 - Insects and twigs, Father. - No converts? 91 00:28:11,903 --> 00:28:13,445 A few. 92 00:28:13,613 --> 00:28:19,118 - And many near to it, thank the Lord. - Thank the Lord, indeed. 93 00:28:19,828 --> 00:28:23,497 - Do you know Rodrigo Mendoza? - Yes, I know him. 94 00:28:23,665 --> 00:28:26,041 Come with me. 95 00:28:27,294 --> 00:28:31,046 I have a task, and you are the only one who can do it. 96 00:28:31,214 --> 00:28:34,800 He's been here for six months, but he won't see anybody. 97 00:28:35,010 --> 00:28:38,095 I think he wants to die. 98 00:29:16,426 --> 00:29:18,719 So... 99 00:29:20,263 --> 00:29:22,848 ...you killed your brother. 100 00:29:24,392 --> 00:29:29,188 And it was a duel. And the law can't touch you. 101 00:29:32,359 --> 00:29:34,693 Is this remorse? 102 00:29:37,072 --> 00:29:38,530 Leave... 103 00:29:39,282 --> 00:29:40,824 ...priest. 104 00:29:40,992 --> 00:29:46,956 Maybe you wish I was your executioner. Perhaps that would be easier. 105 00:29:47,123 --> 00:29:49,917 Leave me alone. 106 00:29:51,044 --> 00:29:54,880 - You know what I am. - Yes. 107 00:29:55,382 --> 00:30:00,928 You're a mercenary, you're a slave trader... 108 00:30:01,096 --> 00:30:04,974 ...and you killed your brother. I know. 109 00:30:05,141 --> 00:30:07,893 And you loved him. 110 00:30:10,438 --> 00:30:14,441 Although you chose a strange way to show it. 111 00:30:23,201 --> 00:30:28,080 Are you laughing at me? Are you laughing at me? 112 00:30:28,248 --> 00:30:30,916 I'm laughing at you... 113 00:30:31,084 --> 00:30:34,086 ...because all I see is laughable. 114 00:30:34,254 --> 00:30:39,758 I see a man running away, a man hiding from the world. I see a coward. 115 00:30:40,969 --> 00:30:43,095 Go on. 116 00:30:45,181 --> 00:30:47,391 Go on. 117 00:30:55,734 --> 00:31:01,530 So is that it? Is this how you mean to go on? 118 00:31:05,035 --> 00:31:07,453 - There is nothing else. - There is life. 119 00:31:07,620 --> 00:31:11,415 - There is no life. - There is a way out, Mendoza. 120 00:31:12,459 --> 00:31:14,960 For me, there is no redemption. 121 00:31:15,128 --> 00:31:18,964 God gave us the burden of freedom. You chose your crime. 122 00:31:19,132 --> 00:31:23,844 Do you have the courage to choose your penance? Do you dare do that? 123 00:31:24,012 --> 00:31:27,723 There is no penance hard enough for me. 124 00:31:32,228 --> 00:31:36,023 - But do you dare try it? - Do I dare? 125 00:31:36,691 --> 00:31:39,318 Do you dare to see it fail? 126 00:33:11,703 --> 00:33:13,996 - Father? - Aye? 127 00:33:14,164 --> 00:33:17,416 How long must he carry that stupid thing? 128 00:33:17,584 --> 00:33:20,169 God knows, Father John. 129 00:35:40,560 --> 00:35:43,562 - Ralph, here. - Thank you. 130 00:35:50,236 --> 00:35:52,237 Father? 131 00:35:53,156 --> 00:35:59,119 He's done this penance long enough. The other brothers think the same. 132 00:36:00,163 --> 00:36:02,456 But he doesn't think so, John. 133 00:36:03,416 --> 00:36:06,251 Until he does, neither do I. 134 00:36:08,254 --> 00:36:13,633 We're not the members of a democracy, Father. We're members of an order. 135 00:45:39,783 --> 00:45:41,242 No. 136 00:45:41,410 --> 00:45:43,119 No. 137 00:46:45,933 --> 00:46:48,142 Thank you. 138 00:46:51,605 --> 00:46:57,652 Thank you, Lord, for our food and all your other blessings. Amen. 139 00:47:03,784 --> 00:47:06,077 Oh, good Lord. 140 00:47:08,205 --> 00:47:11,249 - Did you cook this? - Yes. 141 00:47:12,501 --> 00:47:14,544 Did you put in all the chilies? 142 00:47:17,256 --> 00:47:19,590 I'm afraid I did. 143 00:47:20,968 --> 00:47:25,054 I'm sorry. I was trained as a mercenary, not as a cook. 144 00:47:25,222 --> 00:47:27,140 - This is true. - It's dreadful. 145 00:47:28,308 --> 00:47:31,019 - But the bread is good. - It's not bad. 146 00:47:31,186 --> 00:47:35,189 Father, I want to thank you for having me here. 147 00:47:38,360 --> 00:47:40,653 You should thank the Guarani. 148 00:47:42,197 --> 00:47:44,198 How? 149 00:47:53,542 --> 00:47:55,793 Read this. 150 00:48:01,675 --> 00:48:05,595 "Though I have all faith so that I could remove mountains... 151 00:48:05,763 --> 00:48:08,848 ...and have not love, I am nothing. 152 00:48:09,016 --> 00:48:12,393 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor... 153 00:48:12,561 --> 00:48:15,688 ...and though I give my body to be burned... 154 00:48:15,856 --> 00:48:20,359 ...and have not love, it profiteth me nothing. 155 00:48:20,527 --> 00:48:24,781 Love suffereth long and is kind. 156 00:48:25,115 --> 00:48:26,991 Love envieth not. 157 00:48:27,159 --> 00:48:31,579 Love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up. 158 00:48:39,630 --> 00:48:42,256 When I was a child, I spake as a child... 159 00:48:42,424 --> 00:48:45,843 ...I understood as a child, I thought as a child. 160 00:48:46,011 --> 00:48:51,349 But when I became a man, I put away childish things. 161 00:48:51,517 --> 00:48:57,980 But now abideth faith, hope, love... These three. 162 00:48:58,148 --> 00:49:02,068 But the greatest of these is love." 163 00:49:07,866 --> 00:49:10,243 They've agreed. 164 00:49:12,287 --> 00:49:15,998 If you're going to become a Jesuit, you must accept my orders... 165 00:49:16,166 --> 00:49:20,044 ...as if they were the orders of a commander. Can you do that? 166 00:49:20,212 --> 00:49:22,880 Yes, Father. 167 00:49:48,240 --> 00:49:51,909 Let us pray for our brother Rodrigo. 168 00:49:52,911 --> 00:49:58,082 Christ, you led Father Ignatius to renounce the snares of this world... 169 00:49:58,250 --> 00:50:03,212 ...and to put on the livery of labor and humiliation. 170 00:50:04,423 --> 00:50:10,887 Now we ask your blessing on Rodrigo as we welcome him into our community. 171 00:50:11,513 --> 00:50:15,808 Teach him to be generous, to labor and not to count the cost... 172 00:50:15,976 --> 00:50:20,980 ...to serve with no reward, save the doing of your will. 173 00:50:21,190 --> 00:50:22,481 - Amen. - Amen. 174 00:50:22,649 --> 00:50:23,900 Amen. 175 00:50:30,866 --> 00:50:33,409 Welcome home, brother. 176 00:50:59,978 --> 00:51:03,856 This seeking to create a paradise on earth... 177 00:51:04,024 --> 00:51:06,984 ...how easily it offends. 178 00:51:07,152 --> 00:51:09,028 Your Holiness is offended... 179 00:51:09,196 --> 00:51:13,491 ...because it may distract from that paradise which comes hereafter. 180 00:51:13,659 --> 00:51:16,744 The Spanish and Portuguese kings are offended... 181 00:51:16,912 --> 00:51:21,249 ...because a paradise of the poor is seldom pleasing to those who rule. 182 00:51:21,416 --> 00:51:25,503 And the settlers here are offended for the same reason. 183 00:51:25,671 --> 00:51:29,090 So it was this burden I carried to South America: 184 00:51:29,258 --> 00:51:32,927 To satisfy the Portuguese wish to enlarge their empire... 185 00:51:33,095 --> 00:51:37,181 ...to satisfy the Spanish desire that this would do them no harm... 186 00:51:37,349 --> 00:51:39,183 ...to satisfy Your Holiness... 187 00:51:39,351 --> 00:51:43,813 ...that these monarchs would threaten no more the power of the church... 188 00:51:43,981 --> 00:51:47,024 ...and to ensure for you all... 189 00:51:47,192 --> 00:51:53,281 ...that the Jesuits here could no longer deny you these satisfactions. 190 00:51:53,448 --> 00:51:56,867 I've spent half my life waiting for Rome. 191 00:51:57,035 --> 00:51:59,745 Stop playing with that. 192 00:52:00,205 --> 00:52:04,208 - What time is it? - Calm down. 193 00:52:04,376 --> 00:52:06,335 Ten to. 194 00:52:07,421 --> 00:52:10,423 Let me see how the children are doing. 195 00:52:11,049 --> 00:52:12,842 Good. 196 00:52:35,115 --> 00:52:37,366 Twenty-four. 197 00:52:39,202 --> 00:52:41,287 Thirty-nine. 198 00:53:07,356 --> 00:53:09,315 Over there, please. 199 00:53:20,285 --> 00:53:23,788 - Those are Guarani? - Yes, Your Eminence. 200 00:53:23,955 --> 00:53:26,791 - Extraordinary. - What? 201 00:53:26,958 --> 00:53:30,211 Very difficult to tell what they're thinking. 202 00:53:30,379 --> 00:53:33,130 - Have you found this, Señor Hontar? - I have. 203 00:53:33,298 --> 00:53:36,300 I had that reaction when I first came, Your Eminence. 204 00:53:38,053 --> 00:53:41,639 Pretty creature. She'll fetch a lot of money in Lisbon. 205 00:53:41,807 --> 00:53:45,476 Yes. Well, perhaps she doesn't want to go to Lisbon. 206 00:53:45,644 --> 00:53:47,978 Perhaps not. 207 00:53:49,022 --> 00:53:52,900 Well, Your Eminence, as to the missions... 208 00:53:53,068 --> 00:53:57,905 We expect no political difference between the Papacy, Spain and Portugal? 209 00:53:58,073 --> 00:53:59,740 Why should there be? 210 00:53:59,908 --> 00:54:04,453 Between ourselves, Your Eminence, the Jesuits are too powerful here. 211 00:54:05,372 --> 00:54:07,081 Indeed? 212 00:54:09,292 --> 00:54:11,293 Well, if you'll excuse me, gentlemen... 213 00:54:11,461 --> 00:54:13,796 Your Eminence. 214 00:54:14,214 --> 00:54:16,674 By the way, gentlemen... 215 00:54:17,551 --> 00:54:20,344 ...I myself was a Jesuit once. 216 00:54:31,565 --> 00:54:34,108 So I had arrived in South America... 217 00:54:34,276 --> 00:54:37,278 ...my head replete with the matters of Europe. 218 00:54:37,446 --> 00:54:42,074 But I soon began to understand, for the first time... 219 00:54:42,242 --> 00:54:46,829 ...what a strange world I had been sent to judge. 220 00:55:30,832 --> 00:55:35,211 Don Cabeza, how can you possibly refer to this child as an animal? 221 00:55:35,378 --> 00:55:37,463 A parrot can be taught to sing, Your Eminence. 222 00:55:38,924 --> 00:55:43,177 Yes, but how does one teach it to sing as melodiously as this? 223 00:55:46,056 --> 00:55:47,932 Your Eminence. 224 00:55:49,643 --> 00:55:53,437 This is a child of the jungle, an animal with a human voice. 225 00:55:53,605 --> 00:55:56,357 If it were human, an animal would cringe at its vices. 226 00:55:56,525 --> 00:55:59,610 These creatures are lethal and lecherous. 227 00:55:59,903 --> 00:56:03,656 They have to be subdued by the sword and brought to labor by the whip. 228 00:56:03,823 --> 00:56:06,909 What they say is sheer nonsense. 229 00:56:09,079 --> 00:56:11,747 Father Gabriel, of the mission... 230 00:56:11,957 --> 00:56:15,334 ...of San Carlos, from which the boy comes. 231 00:56:15,627 --> 00:56:17,503 And that is where? 232 00:56:23,260 --> 00:56:26,512 That is here. Above the falls, in Spanish territory. 233 00:56:26,680 --> 00:56:31,600 No, that is territory which used to be Spanish. Now it's Portuguese. 234 00:56:31,768 --> 00:56:36,772 - That is for His Eminence to decide. - No, that is a state matter. 235 00:56:36,940 --> 00:56:42,861 It was decided by the Treaty of Madrid and concluded by Spain and Portugal. 236 00:56:43,029 --> 00:56:45,948 But surely the missions will remain under church protection? 237 00:56:46,116 --> 00:56:51,745 That is what His Eminence is here to decide, Father Gabriel. 238 00:56:58,420 --> 00:57:01,005 Continue, Father. 239 00:57:04,759 --> 00:57:09,346 Your Eminence, below the falls, the jungle, if it has to be divided... 240 00:57:09,514 --> 00:57:12,683 ...may be divided between the Spanish and Portuguese. 241 00:57:12,851 --> 00:57:17,146 But above the falls, it still belongs to God and the Guarani. 242 00:57:17,314 --> 00:57:21,692 There's no one else there. And they are not naturally animals. 243 00:57:21,860 --> 00:57:24,778 - They're naturally spiritual. - Spiritual? 244 00:57:25,196 --> 00:57:30,409 - They kill their own young. - That is true. May I answer that? 245 00:57:30,577 --> 00:57:36,332 Every man and woman is allowed one child. If a third is born, it is killed. 246 00:57:36,499 --> 00:57:40,669 But this is not some animal rite. It's a necessity for survival. 247 00:57:41,588 --> 00:57:44,298 They can only run with one child apiece. 248 00:57:44,466 --> 00:57:48,469 And what do they run from? They run from us. 249 00:57:48,637 --> 00:57:51,472 - That is, they run from slavery. - Rubbish. 250 00:57:51,640 --> 00:57:54,475 - It is well-known-- - Rubbish. Your Eminence? 251 00:57:55,310 --> 00:57:56,685 Your Eminence? 252 00:57:56,853 --> 00:57:59,229 Rubbish. Rubbish. 253 00:57:59,439 --> 00:58:03,609 - Your Eminence. - Silence. 254 00:58:03,777 --> 00:58:07,738 In the territories covered by Spain, there is no slavery. 255 00:58:08,740 --> 00:58:12,660 That institution is permitted in the territories of our neighbors... 256 00:58:12,827 --> 00:58:16,705 ...the Portuguese, and is, to my mind, much misunderstood. 257 00:58:16,873 --> 00:58:19,541 But here, in Spanish territory... 258 00:58:19,709 --> 00:58:23,962 ...we run our plantation in accordance with the laws of Spain... 259 00:58:24,130 --> 00:58:27,299 ...and the precepts of the church. 260 00:58:29,886 --> 00:58:30,928 That is a lie. 261 00:58:35,058 --> 00:58:36,558 That is a lie! 262 00:58:39,437 --> 00:58:42,773 I cannot and will not accept a challenge from a monk. 263 00:58:43,858 --> 00:58:47,653 - His cloth protects him. - My cloth protects you. 264 00:58:47,821 --> 00:58:51,532 In the name of the king, I demand an apology! 265 00:58:51,700 --> 00:58:55,494 I want an apology now! Damn you, I won't stand for this! 266 00:59:04,003 --> 00:59:08,298 Your Eminence, we've just seen a good example of Jesuit contempt... 267 00:59:08,466 --> 00:59:11,593 ...for the authority of the state. 268 00:59:22,814 --> 00:59:25,941 Member of your community, Father Gabriel? 269 00:59:26,109 --> 00:59:27,526 Yes. 270 00:59:31,823 --> 00:59:32,906 Come. 271 00:59:35,076 --> 00:59:37,494 - That was perfect. - What? 272 00:59:37,662 --> 00:59:41,582 A flash of Jesuit temper was just what we needed him to see. 273 00:59:41,750 --> 00:59:45,919 - What do you mean? - Be patient, will you? 274 00:59:46,087 --> 00:59:50,174 All we need is a little patience. He knows what to do. 275 01:00:03,813 --> 01:00:07,775 - You will apologize to Don Cabeza. - What he said was a lie. 276 01:00:07,942 --> 01:00:12,279 Silence. You will apologize. Go now. 277 01:00:21,539 --> 01:00:26,502 - What was he before he joined you? - A mercenary and slave trader. 278 01:00:32,175 --> 01:00:35,844 - Will he apologize? - Yes, he will. 279 01:00:49,275 --> 01:00:52,861 You should know that the Spanish do have slaves here. 280 01:00:53,029 --> 01:00:56,448 They buy them from the Portuguese, amongst others. 281 01:00:57,408 --> 01:01:02,454 - And Don Cabeza connives at this? - Yes. 282 01:01:03,081 --> 01:01:05,582 Profits by it too. 283 01:01:05,750 --> 01:01:10,796 Don Cabeza wants the mission territories taken over by the Portuguese. Why? 284 01:01:10,964 --> 01:01:15,092 Because the missions are the only sanctuary left for the Guarani. 285 01:01:15,260 --> 01:01:18,345 Without the shelter we provide under Spanish law... 286 01:01:18,513 --> 01:01:21,098 ...the Indians have no protection against slavery. 287 01:01:22,267 --> 01:01:24,768 They come to us of their own free will. 288 01:01:25,854 --> 01:01:29,648 - Truly? - Ask them. Ask the Guarani. 289 01:01:30,191 --> 01:01:36,154 Nine-tenths of what they earn goes back into the community, into their lives. 290 01:01:36,322 --> 01:01:39,116 Father Gabriel, what do you think is at issue here? 291 01:01:42,161 --> 01:01:45,956 - The work of God is at issue. - No, what is at issue... 292 01:01:46,124 --> 01:01:51,044 ...is the very existence of the Jesuit order, both here and in Europe. 293 01:01:52,297 --> 01:01:57,259 And I assure you that the courts of Europe are a jungle... 294 01:01:57,427 --> 01:02:00,637 ...in comparison with which your jungle here is a tidy garden. 295 01:02:00,805 --> 01:02:03,223 But is that to stand in our way? 296 01:02:15,486 --> 01:02:17,446 Thank you. 297 01:02:27,373 --> 01:02:30,250 - But why must I apologize? Why? - Because I order it. 298 01:02:30,418 --> 01:02:33,462 - It was a lie. - Nevertheless, I order it. 299 01:02:33,630 --> 01:02:38,258 Don Cabeza hates Jesuits and Indians. He and the Portuguese are ruthless. 300 01:02:38,676 --> 01:02:40,761 - Can't you see that? - Of course. 301 01:02:40,929 --> 01:02:44,181 - Then why must I apologize? - What better excuse can we give them... 302 01:02:44,349 --> 01:02:49,978 ...but that one of our order, albeit a novice, publicly insults one of them? 303 01:02:51,773 --> 01:02:54,483 Now, you will apologize. 304 01:02:59,739 --> 01:03:02,574 Or are you no longer a Jesuit? 305 01:04:02,885 --> 01:04:06,263 By order of holy obedience, without reservation... 306 01:04:06,431 --> 01:04:12,060 ...I ask Don Cabeza to pardon my presumption and my insolence. 307 01:04:16,524 --> 01:04:20,110 Well, I accept. 308 01:04:20,570 --> 01:04:22,529 Why not? 309 01:04:22,697 --> 01:04:27,576 But as I said before, I cannot accept a challenge from a priest. 310 01:04:27,744 --> 01:04:31,371 True, which makes my insolence all the more insolent... 311 01:04:31,539 --> 01:04:33,665 ...and your pardon twice as gracious. 312 01:04:35,960 --> 01:04:39,046 Your Eminence, I ask your pardon too. 313 01:04:39,255 --> 01:04:45,469 I ask the pardon of this assembly. I ask for the pardon of my brothers. 314 01:04:45,636 --> 01:04:47,512 And I ask for your pardon... 315 01:04:49,724 --> 01:04:53,268 - ...for insulting His Excellency. - Thank you, that will do. 316 01:05:00,902 --> 01:05:04,529 Well, that was most gratifying, Your Eminence. 317 01:05:05,782 --> 01:05:10,786 Do you think you could tell us about your attitude to the transference... 318 01:05:10,953 --> 01:05:11,995 ...of the missions' territories? 319 01:05:12,622 --> 01:05:14,498 Precisely. 320 01:05:14,665 --> 01:05:20,670 I have kept these matters in the front of my mind ever since I came here. 321 01:05:20,838 --> 01:05:24,216 But I do not think I should make a final decision... 322 01:05:24,383 --> 01:05:28,970 ...until I have seen these mission territories with my own eyes. 323 01:05:29,138 --> 01:05:32,390 There are numerous missions that I should inspect. 324 01:05:32,558 --> 01:05:36,686 But I have decided that I shall begin with the oldest... 325 01:05:36,854 --> 01:05:40,941 ...the great mission of San Miguel. 326 01:05:51,494 --> 01:05:55,372 Your Holiness, a surgeon, to save the body... 327 01:05:55,540 --> 01:05:58,959 ...must often hack off a limb. 328 01:05:59,127 --> 01:06:05,048 But, in truth, nothing had prepared me for the beauty and the power... 329 01:06:05,216 --> 01:06:09,636 ...of the limb that I had come here to sever. 330 01:07:51,072 --> 01:07:54,991 - Very impressive. - Perhaps I'm missing something. 331 01:07:55,159 --> 01:07:59,246 I can't see any difference between this plantation and my own. 332 01:07:59,413 --> 01:08:02,249 That is the difference. This plantation is theirs. 333 01:08:03,251 --> 01:08:05,710 Your Eminence. 334 01:08:12,760 --> 01:08:14,719 This is another difference. 335 01:08:16,597 --> 01:08:23,019 A runaway slave. Bought by a Spanish settler from a slave trader. 336 01:08:23,646 --> 01:08:27,148 I see. Is that lawful? 337 01:08:27,316 --> 01:08:29,693 Supply and demand is the law of trade. 338 01:08:29,860 --> 01:08:33,029 - And the law of souls? - What's a few cuts... 339 01:08:33,197 --> 01:08:37,909 ...compared with what you offer them? Torments of hell? Imprisoned souls? 340 01:08:38,077 --> 01:08:41,037 Think of that, Your Eminence. 341 01:08:47,837 --> 01:08:51,381 Father Ibaye, shall we continue? 342 01:09:31,714 --> 01:09:34,174 What was your income last year? 343 01:09:34,342 --> 01:09:38,595 Last year, 120,000 escudos. 344 01:09:38,763 --> 01:09:41,389 And how was it distributed? 345 01:09:41,766 --> 01:09:45,560 It is shared among them equally. This is a community. 346 01:09:45,728 --> 01:09:50,815 There is a French radical group that teaches that doctrine. 347 01:09:50,983 --> 01:09:56,529 Your Eminence, it was the doctrine of the early Christians. 348 01:09:56,697 --> 01:10:00,784 Well, I am inexpressibly impressed by your achievement, Father. 349 01:10:00,951 --> 01:10:05,789 - And will that save us? - I hope it may, Father. 350 01:10:08,501 --> 01:10:13,004 The court of Portugal is atheistic, but we are Catholics. 351 01:10:13,172 --> 01:10:17,842 - And you serve a Christian king. - I also serve a Catholic king. 352 01:10:18,010 --> 01:10:22,013 You serve the Marquis of Pombal, who is hostile to the church... 353 01:10:22,181 --> 01:10:24,307 ...and rules your king. 354 01:10:24,475 --> 01:10:30,355 I suggest we ask your king to postpone the transfer of the mission territories... 355 01:10:30,523 --> 01:10:33,441 ...until Portugal guarantees their survival. 356 01:10:33,609 --> 01:10:37,195 And I suggest we do this in the hope of heaven... 357 01:10:37,363 --> 01:10:41,032 ...through the intercession of our merciful Redeemer. 358 01:10:41,200 --> 01:10:46,913 In my opinion, the work of the missions is the work of the devil. 359 01:10:47,081 --> 01:10:52,252 They teach contempt for lawful profit, and they disobey the king's authority. 360 01:10:52,420 --> 01:10:55,547 The paramount vow of a Jesuit is a vow of obedience. 361 01:10:55,756 --> 01:11:00,260 Then let them obey. Tell them, Your Eminence. 362 01:11:16,861 --> 01:11:22,407 Your Eminence, am I disturbing you? 363 01:11:24,535 --> 01:11:28,705 I fear I have bad tidings from the Marquis of Pombal. 364 01:11:37,339 --> 01:11:41,718 Between ourselves, I should like to express my personal regret. 365 01:11:44,430 --> 01:11:48,266 He is determined to destroy the power of the church. 366 01:11:51,145 --> 01:11:55,148 And your Christian community is commercially competitive. 367 01:11:55,316 --> 01:11:59,652 Yes. It's very prosperous. 368 01:12:00,070 --> 01:12:02,530 Isn't that precisely why you want to take it over? 369 01:12:02,698 --> 01:12:08,369 You should've achieved a noble failure if you wanted the state's approval. 370 01:12:08,537 --> 01:12:12,081 There's nothing we like better than a noble failure. 371 01:12:12,249 --> 01:12:16,920 It's deeply reassuring to a trading nation such as my own. 372 01:12:21,300 --> 01:12:23,384 You're not going to read it? 373 01:12:23,552 --> 01:12:27,597 I don't need to read it to know what it contains. 374 01:12:29,683 --> 01:12:32,268 So, what will you do? 375 01:12:32,436 --> 01:12:35,647 As my conscience dictates. 376 01:12:35,814 --> 01:12:37,815 What else? 377 01:13:11,141 --> 01:13:14,394 He's been in there five hours. 378 01:14:15,331 --> 01:14:19,167 Come with me to my mission in San Carlos. 379 01:14:21,003 --> 01:14:23,546 There are so many distractions here. 380 01:14:24,882 --> 01:14:28,760 It's hard to see anything clearly. 381 01:14:31,013 --> 01:14:36,100 I think that, there, your prayers might meet with better fortune. 382 01:14:38,270 --> 01:14:43,608 I think, there, God would tell you what it would be good to do. 383 01:14:45,861 --> 01:14:49,322 And he'd give you the strength and the grace to do it... 384 01:14:51,909 --> 01:14:54,202 ...whatever it costs you. 385 01:15:54,763 --> 01:15:56,931 The Garden of Eden. 386 01:15:58,225 --> 01:16:00,393 It's a trifle overgrown. 387 01:21:10,412 --> 01:21:13,456 Though I knew, in Europe, states were... 388 01:21:13,665 --> 01:21:16,250 ...tearing at the authority of the church... 389 01:21:16,418 --> 01:21:19,545 ...and though I knew that to preserve itself there... 390 01:21:19,713 --> 01:21:23,799 ...the church must show its authority over the Jesuits here... 391 01:21:23,967 --> 01:21:28,304 ...I had to wonder whether these Indians would not have preferred... 392 01:21:28,472 --> 01:21:33,976 ...that the sea and wind had not brought any of us to them. 393 01:21:45,739 --> 01:21:48,866 They say they don't understand what you mean. 394 01:21:51,620 --> 01:21:56,040 They want you to speak more clearly. What do you want them to do? 395 01:21:56,625 --> 01:21:59,376 They must leave the mission. 396 01:22:30,158 --> 01:22:33,244 They say the mission is their home. 397 01:22:33,870 --> 01:22:36,122 They must learn to submit to the will of God. 398 01:22:39,918 --> 01:22:41,293 Tell them. 399 01:23:02,149 --> 01:23:04,191 They say it was the will of God... 400 01:23:04,359 --> 01:23:06,944 ...that they left the jungle and built the mission. 401 01:23:08,405 --> 01:23:11,490 They don't understand why God has changed his mind. 402 01:23:11,658 --> 01:23:14,285 I cannot hope to understand God's reasons. 403 01:23:21,251 --> 01:23:24,003 He says, how does he know you know God's will? 404 01:23:28,341 --> 01:23:31,677 He thinks you speak not for God, but for Portugal. 405 01:23:31,845 --> 01:23:36,765 I do not personally speak for God, but I speak for the church... 406 01:23:36,933 --> 01:23:39,226 ...which is God's instrument on earth. 407 01:23:53,450 --> 01:23:57,828 - He says, speak to the king of Portugal. - I have. He will not listen. 408 01:24:03,835 --> 01:24:06,921 He said he is also a king. He also will not listen. 409 01:24:21,311 --> 01:24:24,647 He says they were wrong ever to have trusted us. 410 01:24:26,107 --> 01:24:28,150 They're going to fight. 411 01:24:28,318 --> 01:24:30,736 You must persuade them not to fight. 412 01:24:33,490 --> 01:24:37,409 I have failed to persuade you to fight on their behalf. 413 01:24:37,577 --> 01:24:41,914 If they do fight, it is imperative that no one of you... 414 01:24:42,082 --> 01:24:46,001 ...should even seemed to have encouraged them to do so. 415 01:24:46,169 --> 01:24:51,590 And therefore, all of you will return with me to Asunción tomorrow. 416 01:24:52,509 --> 01:24:56,553 If anyone should disobey this, he will be excommunicated. 417 01:24:56,721 --> 01:25:00,349 Cut off. Cast out. 418 01:25:03,645 --> 01:25:05,854 Why must they fight? 419 01:25:06,022 --> 01:25:10,359 - Why can't they return to the jungle? - Because this is their home. 420 01:25:12,445 --> 01:25:15,781 Did you know this was going to be your decision? 421 01:25:15,949 --> 01:25:20,119 - Yes. - Why did you come, Your Eminence? 422 01:25:20,287 --> 01:25:22,746 To persuade you not to resist... 423 01:25:22,914 --> 01:25:25,708 ...the transfer of the mission territories. 424 01:25:28,128 --> 01:25:32,381 If the Jesuits resist the Portuguese... 425 01:25:32,549 --> 01:25:35,426 ...the Jesuit order will be expelled from Portugal. 426 01:25:35,593 --> 01:25:41,432 And if Portugal, then Spain, France, Italy... Who knows? 427 01:25:41,599 --> 01:25:45,269 If your order is to survive at all... 428 01:25:45,437 --> 01:25:48,105 ...the missions here must be sacrificed. 429 01:25:56,865 --> 01:25:58,240 What were they saying? 430 01:25:59,409 --> 01:26:02,619 They said the devil lives in the forest. 431 01:26:03,455 --> 01:26:06,957 - They want to stay here. - And what did you say? 432 01:26:07,334 --> 01:26:10,419 I said I'd stay with them. 433 01:28:45,366 --> 01:28:48,785 I want to renounce my vows of obedience. 434 01:28:49,412 --> 01:28:51,288 Get out. 435 01:28:51,456 --> 01:28:54,541 - I want to explain-- - Get out. I won't listen to you. 436 01:29:01,382 --> 01:29:03,800 Just you? 437 01:29:03,968 --> 01:29:07,221 No. It's Ralph and John too. 438 01:29:08,306 --> 01:29:11,808 What do you want, captain, an honorable death? 439 01:29:12,435 --> 01:29:14,686 They want to live, Father. 440 01:29:15,438 --> 01:29:18,982 They say that God has left them, he's deserted them. 441 01:29:19,234 --> 01:29:20,526 Has he? 442 01:29:23,738 --> 01:29:27,658 - You shouldn't have become a priest. - But I am, and they need me. 443 01:29:27,825 --> 01:29:30,077 Then help them as a priest! 444 01:29:31,955 --> 01:29:37,584 If you die with blood on your hands, you betray everything we've done. 445 01:29:37,752 --> 01:29:42,381 You promised your life to God. And God is love! 446 01:30:25,592 --> 01:30:27,968 Amen. 447 01:35:03,369 --> 01:35:06,496 Weren't you supposed to be on guard last night? 448 01:35:06,664 --> 01:35:08,498 Look what happened! 449 01:35:09,458 --> 01:35:12,252 Get back there with the others. 450 01:35:12,420 --> 01:35:15,881 They've taken three guns, gunpowder, pistols... 451 01:35:16,048 --> 01:35:18,758 ...and I don't know what else. 452 01:36:14,565 --> 01:36:17,067 Easy. 453 01:37:43,279 --> 01:37:46,781 Father, I've come to ask you to bless me. 454 01:37:52,121 --> 01:37:53,371 No. 455 01:37:58,002 --> 01:38:00,545 If you're right, you'll have God's blessing. 456 01:38:02,381 --> 01:38:05,759 If you're wrong, my blessing won't mean anything. 457 01:38:08,012 --> 01:38:11,306 If might is right... 458 01:38:11,474 --> 01:38:15,060 ...then love has no place in the world. 459 01:38:16,187 --> 01:38:19,481 It may be so. 460 01:38:21,233 --> 01:38:24,903 But I don't have the strength to live in a world like that. 461 01:38:32,745 --> 01:38:34,621 I can't bless you. 462 01:38:53,349 --> 01:38:55,100 Rodrigo. 463 01:41:05,022 --> 01:41:08,566 Down there. Down there. 464 01:41:09,193 --> 01:41:10,735 Bring up both cannons. 465 01:41:16,033 --> 01:41:18,409 Quickly. Quickly. 466 01:41:19,828 --> 01:41:21,496 The other cannon as well. 467 01:44:14,670 --> 01:44:16,587 Ow! 468 01:44:17,840 --> 01:44:21,384 Indians! Turn around! 469 01:44:22,594 --> 01:44:27,390 Turn around! Face them! 470 01:46:36,144 --> 01:46:37,603 Fire! 471 01:47:10,971 --> 01:47:13,180 We'll have to move the cannon. 472 01:47:13,348 --> 01:47:16,684 Move this cannon. Move it. And that one. 473 01:47:17,394 --> 01:47:19,520 Over there. Shoot the priest. Get him! 474 01:48:46,149 --> 01:48:50,945 - None of us wants to do this. - I'm not interested. Get in position. 475 01:49:44,458 --> 01:49:46,167 Row. 476 01:50:01,516 --> 01:50:03,100 After him! Faster! 477 01:50:11,193 --> 01:50:13,861 Don't let the priest get away! 478 01:50:14,029 --> 01:50:15,738 After him! 479 01:50:25,207 --> 01:50:27,374 Look out! The falls! Halt! 480 01:50:31,755 --> 01:50:34,048 Back! Back! Halt! 481 01:50:44,768 --> 01:50:47,061 Go back! 482 01:52:28,204 --> 01:52:30,039 Fire! 483 01:57:51,653 --> 01:57:56,865 And you have the effrontery to tell me that this slaughter was necessary? 484 01:57:59,160 --> 01:58:02,412 I did what I had to do. 485 01:58:02,580 --> 01:58:07,042 Given the legitimate purpose, which you sanctioned... 486 01:58:07,210 --> 01:58:13,465 ...I would have to say, yes. In truth, yes. 487 01:58:28,564 --> 01:58:31,441 You had no alternative, Your Eminence. 488 01:58:34,028 --> 01:58:36,238 We must work in the world. 489 01:58:37,991 --> 01:58:40,325 The world is thus. 490 01:58:41,286 --> 01:58:44,454 No, Señor Hontar... 491 01:58:44,622 --> 01:58:47,541 ...thus have we made the world. 492 01:58:52,046 --> 01:58:54,339 Thus have I made it. 493 02:00:23,262 --> 02:00:26,473 So, Your Holiness... 494 02:00:26,641 --> 02:00:32,646 ...now your priests are dead, and I am left alive. 495 02:00:32,814 --> 02:00:39,027 But, in truth, it is I who am dead, and they who live. 496 02:00:39,195 --> 02:00:42,280 For, as always, Your Holiness... 497 02:00:42,448 --> 02:00:46,284 ...the spirit of the dead will survive... 498 02:00:46,452 --> 02:00:50,330 ...in the memory of the living.