Dispute in Valladolid

Dispute in Valladolid

90 mins | Drama, History, TV Movie | May 2, 1992

Spain conquered the seas, found a new world and different realities than the one known in Europe. But a question needed to be answered with what they found in those new territories: do the Indians have souls? The Church, bound to protect and convert the natives and the conquerors who treated them like slaves and thought they were only merchandising, expose their arguments and reasonings at what would be known as the Vallidolid controversy. Between them, there's a cardinal hearing both parts and trying to get reasonable answers from this critical question.

Dispute in Valladolid

90 mins | Drama, History, TV Movie | May 2, 1992

Dispute in Valladolid
Spain conquered the seas, found a new world and different realities than the one known in Europe. But a question needed to be answered with what they found in those new territories: do the Indians have souls? The Church, bound to protect and convert the natives and the conquerors who treated them like slaves and thought they were only merchandising, expose their arguments and reasonings at what would be known as the Vallidolid controversy. Between them, there's a cardinal hearing both parts and trying to get reasonable answers from this critical question.
IMDb rating 7.7
Producers RTBF, La Sept Cinéma
Original title La controverse de Valladolid
Directors Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe
Writers Jean-Claude Carrière

Cast

Jean-Pierre Marielle

as Bartolomé de las Casas

Jean-Louis Trintignant

as Ginèse de Sepúlveda

Jean Carmet

as Le Légat du Pape

Claude Laugier

as Frère Ambrosiano

Didier Bourguignon

as Le scribe

Dominique Noé

as Un assesseur du légat

Emmanuel-Georges Delajoie

as L'ouvrier africain

Franck Laigneau

as Le jeune moine au claquoir

Jean Nehr

as Assistant de Las Casas

Jean-Paul Egalon

as Le soldat

Michel Charrel

as Le deuxième colon

Mogan Mehlem

as Représentant du Roi

Pascal Elso

as Frère Emiliano

Raymond Aulme

as Un dominicain