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The Mission

Starring: Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons; Liam Neeson

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A powerhouse of a movie, visually stunning and emotionally intense. This is an epic tale of two men trying to protect a tribe of South American Indians from brutal subjugation by an 18th century colonial empire. Both men of the cloth, one (Jeremy Irons) does so by peaceful protest, the other an ex-mercenary (Robert De Niro) by the sword. It also has one of the most famous musical scores for any movie.

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• The majority of the crew became ill with amoebic dysentery only Robert De Niro manage to escape the runs.

• The battle at the end of the movie is based on a real event where 1,511 Guarani tribes people lost their lives and the attacking Europeans only lost 3.

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