At Play in the Fields of the Lord

At Play in the Fields of the Lord (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Golden Globes
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
185 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Filmographies
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1991 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Hector Babenco

Written By:
Hector Babenco
Jean-Claude Carrière

Actors:
Tom Berenger ..... Lewis Moon
John Lithgow ..... Leslie Huben
Daryl Hannah ..... Andy Huben
Aidan Quinn ..... Martin Quarrier
Tom Waits ..... Wolf
Kathy Bates ..... Hazel Quarrier
Stênio Garcia ..... Boronai
Nelson Xavier ..... Father Xantes
José Dumont ..... Commandante Guzman
Niilo Kivirinta ..... Billy Quarrier
S. Yriwana Karaja ..... Aeore
Jose Renato Lana ..... Uyuyu
Ruy Polanah ..... Kori
Carlos Xavante ..... Tukanu
Ione Machado ..... Pindi

Synopsis:

In a remote branch of the Brazilian Amazon, Americans Lewis (Tom Berenger) and Wolf (Tom Waits) are stranded when their plane runs out of gas. They are kept company by an evangelist missionary (John Lithgow) and his wife (Darryl Hannah). The preacher and his followers want to preach to the primitive Niaruna Indians, while others are interested in the Niaruna for more diabolical reasons-specifically, business concerns that would like to claim the Indians' land for development. The local police chief cuts a deal with the mercenaries Lewis and Wolf: if they will agree to bomb the Niarunas out of existence, they will be paid enough money to leave the country. Instead, Lewis, part Native American himself,aligns himself with the Niarunas. From this moment on, he and the tribe are doomed. A long-standing pet project of producer Saul Zaentz, At Play in the Fields of the Lord was adapted from the best-selling novel by Peter Matthiesen.

Two American mercenaries and a missionary couple arrive in a remote outpost, the Amazonian backwater town Mae de Deus. The local comandante tries to coerce the mercenaries into bombing the local tribe of Niaruna Indians so that their land can be annexed for gold mining. Meanwhile, the missionaries are hoping to convert the Niaruna.

Set in the 1970s, the story reflects on a group of Presbyterian missionaries and two American pilots/gun-runners in the Amazon, and how their intentions affect the world around them. Film focuses on the pilots' efforts to bomb a tribe of Indians off their land until one of the pilot's Indian heritage puts him in conflict with the job.

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