Cabeza de Vaca (1991)
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Juan Diego, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Roberto Sosa, Carlos Castañón
After an expedition to Florida is shipwrecked, Cabeza de Vaca is captured and becomes the servant of a nomadic shaman.
The story
Spanish conquistador Cabeza de Vaca joins Pánfilo de Narváez’s expedition to Florida. The voyage ends in disaster when the expedition is shipwrecked off the Florida coast and its members are decimated by Indigenous arrows. Cabeza de Vaca is captured and enslaved alongside other survivors. Over the following years, he serves a nomadic shaman, learning the shaman’s healing techniques.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
Based on the writings of the Spanish conquistador of the same name, it tells how he joined Pánfilo de Narváez’s expedition to Florida. When the expedition is shipwrecked off the coast of Florida, after being decimated by Indigenous arrows, Cabeza de Vaca is taken prisoner and enslaved along with some of the expedition’s survivors. For several years, Alvar Núñez serves a nomadic shaman and learns his healing techniques.
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