1492 - The conquest of the Paradieses
| film data | |
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| of German titles: | 1492 - The conquest of the Paradieses |
| original title: | 1492: Conquest OF of Paradise |
| production country: | The USA / Great Britain / France / Spain |
| feature year: | 1992 |
| length (PAL - DVD): | 139 minutes |
| of source language: | English |
| age release: | FSK 16 |
| staff | |
| direction: | Ridley Scott |
| film script: | Roselyne Bosch |
| production: | Mimi Polk Gitlin, Ridley Scott, Iain Smith, Garth Thomas |
| music: | Vangelis |
| camera: | Adrian Biddle |
| cut: | William M. Anderson one, Françoise Bonnot, Les Healey, arms Minasian, Deborah Zeitman |
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1492 - the conquest of the Paradieses is a history film of the director Ridley Scott from the year 1992. The film script comes from Roselyne Bosch.
The film was a little successful in the cinemas and hardly brought production costs in. However the film music of the composer Vangelis became very successful.
action
the film tells the history of the discovery America by Christoph Kolumbus and the effects on the natives.
Kolumbus (Gérard Depardieu) strives for the support of the Spanish crown for the project of an expedition, which should find an alternative way to India. Three ships are sent, which discover country after some time. In addition, Kolumbus is celebrated after its return to Spain as a hero, wakes envy of influential Höflinge.
honors
the music of Vangelis for the price golden Globe Award was nominated. In addition the title song Conquest OF of Paradise was selected 1995 as appearance music of the German Boxers Henry mask and reached in the consequence place 1 the Charts in Germany and Switzerland. The single received three-fold platinum, the Soundtrack LP double platinum in Germany.
