The Other Conquest (2007)

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Rating: R

Release Date: May 4, 2007

Running Time: 94 mins.

Additional Notes: dialogue Spanish and Nahuati, subtitled English

Country Of Origin: Mexico

starring: Damian Delgado, Jose Carlos Rodriguez, Elpidia Carrillo, Inaki Aierra, Honarato Magaloni, Silvia Gutierrez, Guillermo Rios

director: Salvador Carrasco

The Other Conquest (La Otra conquista)

A tapestry of fact, fiction and spirituality creates the story of the Aztec scribe Topiltzin, Emperor Moctezuma's illegitimate son, who is trying to adapt to a hostile and disheveled world after the 1521 Spanish Conquest of Mexico.

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Story

"The Other Conquest" tells the story of Topiltzin (Damian Delgado), a fictional illegitimate son of Moctezuma, emperor of the Aztecs. Surviving 1521's bloody invasion of Mexico by Hernando Cortez (Inaki Aierra), Topiltzin is captured and taken to a monastery for conversion to Christianity. Topiltzin must choose whether to honor his heritage and embrace the Aztec gods or accept Christianity. Christianity's destruction of native Mexican faiths…