If you've spent your life in the United States, you might not know that Florida used to be a Spanish colony. In the 1520s, an explorer led an expedition into the peninsula and ended up traversing thousands of miles (or kilometers) over the next few years, covering what became the southeast US.
Nicolás Echevarría's "Cabeza de Vaca" focuses on this expedition, although it sounds as though the movie adds a lot of stuff that didn't happen. Sounds as though "based on a true story" should usually raise a red flag.
Aside from that, the movie does introduce the viewer to this impressive part of history. It's a real pity that we tend to learn so little about history, even US history (never mind that we don't learn the history of the indigenous peoples).
Worth seeing as a historical reference.
Nicolás Echevarría's "Cabeza de Vaca" focuses on this expedition, although it sounds as though the movie adds a lot of stuff that didn't happen. Sounds as though "based on a true story" should usually raise a red flag.
Aside from that, the movie does introduce the viewer to this impressive part of history. It's a real pity that we tend to learn so little about history, even US history (never mind that we don't learn the history of the indigenous peoples).
Worth seeing as a historical reference.