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Magalhães = Magellan / Rosa Filmes ; Andergraun Films ; BlackCap Pictures ; Lib Films ; written and directed by Lav Diaz.

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Format:
Video
Contributor:
Azevedo, Angela, actor.
Diaz, Lav, 1958- film director, screenwriter.
García Bernal, Gael, 1978- actor.
Lazaro, Ronnie, actor.
Andergraun Films (Firm), production company.
BlackCap Pictures, production company.
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
Lib Films, production company.
Rosa Filmes, production company.
Series:
Criterion premieres
Language:
Cebuano
English
Portuguese
Spanish
Subjects (All):
Magalhães, Fernão de, 1480-1521--Drama.
Magalhães, Fernão de.
Explorers--Portugal--16th century--Drama.
Explorers.
Genre:
Biographical films.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Historical films.
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (163 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
4 3/4 in.
polychrome
Other Title:
Magellan
Place of Publication:
[New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2026]
Language Note:
Portuguese, Spanish and Cebuano dialogue; English subtitles.
System Details:
DVD, region 1 NTSC, fullscreen (1.33:1); 5.1 Dolby surround
digital
optical
surround
NTSC
video file
DVD video region 1
Summary:
A hypnotic journey engraved in images of staggering beauty and horror, this monumental achievement from Lav Diaz boldly rewrites the imperialist mythmaking of the Age of Discovery. Elegantly minimalist yet overpowering in its scale and impact, Magellan follows the sixteenth-century Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan as he embarks on his epochal quest to cross the Pacific a voyage that spirals into zealotry and violence when he attempts to impose Christianity upon the people of the Philippines. Abetted by García Bernal's radically antiheroic portrayal, Diaz composes a stark vision of the brutality at the heart of European conquest and a haunting elegy for a lost precolonial past.
Participant:
Gael García Bernal, Angela Azevedo, Ronnie Lazaro.
Notes:
Full screen (1.33:1).
Originally released as a motion picture in 2025.
Special features: Meet the filmmakers: Lav Diaz, a Criterion Channel original interview; trailer.
ISBN:
9798886074437
OCLC:
1587164388
Publisher Number:
715515336017
19585353 Midwest Tape
JF054DVD The Criterion Collection

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