Film & Screen Media UCC

Tonight, we are honoured to present a 40th Anniversary Screening of The Mission with producer David Puttnam 📽️

Join us for a Screening of The Mission (Roland Joffé, 1986) followed by a discussion of the film with its producer David Puttnam and Hiram Morgan, School of History, chaired by Ciara Chambers, Department of Film & Screen Media.

Tuesday 13 October, 18:00 📍 Boole 4, UCC

UCC School of History is partnering with the Department of Film & Screen Media to celebrate the 40th anniversary of The Mission with a special screening.

This multiple awardwinning film, starring Robert De Niro and Jeremy Irons, is set in the mid-eighteenth century beside the magnificent Iguacu Falls on the borders of Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay. Amid the land-grabbing and slave-trading of European powers and planters, Jesuit missionaries attempt to protect the local Amerindians and save the Christian paradise they have been building in the jungle. The film, with a notable Irish input in person of actors Ray McAnally, Aidan Quinn and Liam Neeson, also echoed many of the issues surrounding Liberation Theology when it was made. Pitting Capitalism against Paternalism, Colonialism against Native Rights, Development against Environment, Materialism against Altruism, Violence against Pacifism, the story is a powerful mediation on Idealism and Realism in human development.

Producer David Puttnam will be on hand to discuss The Mission which he made alongside director Roland Joffé following on from their successful Killing Fields (1984) about the failed Communist experiment in Cambodia.

Limited tickets still available on Eventbrite