Christopher Columbus' discovery of the Americas and the effect this has on the indigenous people.Christopher Columbus' discovery of the Americas and the effect this has on the indigenous people.Christopher Columbus' discovery of the Americas and the effect this has on the indigenous people.
- Awards
- 2 nominations
Ángela Molina
- Beatrix
- (as Angela Molina)
Tchéky Karyo
- Pinzon
- (as Tcheky Karyo)
Billy L. Sullivan
- Fernando (aged 10)
- (as Billy Sullivan)
Fernando Guillén Cuervo
- Giacomo
- (as Fernando G. Cuervo)
José Luis Ferrer
- Alonso
- (as Jose Luis Ferrer)
- Director
- Writer
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Did you know
- TriviaThe replicas of Columbus' ships used in the film were built in Spain between 1990 and 1992. In 1992 they sailed the route of Columbus' first voyage to commemorate to 500th anniversary of the discovery of America. Today they are exhibited in Palos de la Frontera, Spain, and they are visited by approximately 200.000 people each year.
- GoofsIn the film, the nobleman Adrián de Moxica cuts the hand of a Native American because he wasn't able to pay taxes in gold to the Spaniards, something which Columbus condemns. In fact, it was Columbus himself who introduced this practice of cutting the hands.
- Quotes
[first lines]
Young Fernando Columbus: Of all the words my father wrote - and there were many - I remember these the most: "Nothing that results from human progress is achieved with unanimous consent. And those who are enlightened before the others are condemned to persue that light in spite of others."
- Alternate versionsJapanese laserdisc is a longer cut of the film with five deleted scenes and a few extended ones. And R-rated violence that was cut for the US PG-13 version. The soundtrack for the film indicates that the film was originally much longer.
- ConnectionsEdited into Catalogue of Ships (2008)
- SoundtracksAmazonia
Permission of Grem Records, France
Featured review
What a bad movie. In the worst tradition of Hollywood, this film is full of cliches and simplifications. Every character's actions and personality can be predicted the second s/he appears on the screen. The past filtered through political correctness and ignorance looks very black and white. The queen is independent and intelligent, the nobles are greedy and selfish, the churchmen are a bunch of fanatical, ignorant liars. Anything else? Oh yes, I cannot believe that Depardieu agreed to play in this pathetic excuse for a movie.
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Box office
- Budget
- $47,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $7,191,399
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $3,002,680
- Oct 12, 1992
- Gross worldwide
- $7,191,399
- Runtime2 hours 34 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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