The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1969)
Country: GB/US
Technical: col 121m
Director: Irving Lerner
Cast: Robert Shaw, Christopher Plummer, Nigel Davenport
Synopsis:
The story of Pizarro's expedition into Peru and his capture of the Incan emperor, Atahualpa.
Review:
Adaptation of Peter Shaffer's highly lauded National Theatre production, with Andalusian locations, always a problem for such an artificial endeavour. The film-makers resort to slow motion and other formal devices to retain some sense of stylization, but in the end this is a story of the confrontation of two empires, two world views, resting on the later scenes between Shaw and Plummer for its effect.
Country: GB/US
Technical: col 121m
Director: Irving Lerner
Cast: Robert Shaw, Christopher Plummer, Nigel Davenport
Synopsis:
The story of Pizarro's expedition into Peru and his capture of the Incan emperor, Atahualpa.
Review:
Adaptation of Peter Shaffer's highly lauded National Theatre production, with Andalusian locations, always a problem for such an artificial endeavour. The film-makers resort to slow motion and other formal devices to retain some sense of stylization, but in the end this is a story of the confrontation of two empires, two world views, resting on the later scenes between Shaw and Plummer for its effect.
Country: GB/US
Technical: col 121m
Director: Irving Lerner
Cast: Robert Shaw, Christopher Plummer, Nigel Davenport
Synopsis:
The story of Pizarro's expedition into Peru and his capture of the Incan emperor, Atahualpa.
Review:
Adaptation of Peter Shaffer's highly lauded National Theatre production, with Andalusian locations, always a problem for such an artificial endeavour. The film-makers resort to slow motion and other formal devices to retain some sense of stylization, but in the end this is a story of the confrontation of two empires, two world views, resting on the later scenes between Shaw and Plummer for its effect.