Though its ambitions outstrip its accomplishments, writer-director Salvador Carrasco's account of the 16th–century clash between the Aztecs and Spaniards as embodied in two men fiercely devoted to their own faiths was hugely successful in Mexico. It took nine years to make it to U.S. theaters, its path most likely paved by Mel Gibson's APOCALYPTO (2006).
Mexico, 1521: Two years after the arrival of Hernando Cortes (Inaki Aierra) and his army, the Aztec nation is in ruins, its royal family dead — with the exception of Emperor Montezuma's oldest daughter, Tecuichpo (Elpidia Carrillo), who's become Cortes' mistress — its temples laid waste to and its religion b...
Released:
1998
Rated:
R
Length:
110 mins