Film- La Otra Conquista (partly in Nahuatl)

[Craig Berry]

Hi, Henry et al,

>       A while back somebody had inquired about the VHS/DVD release of the
> film La otra conquista (The Other Conquest). I heard the producer, Salvador
> Carrasco, being interviewed on the radio last week telling the radio
> audience that movie was now out on DVD, available at Amazon.com or in major
> video outlets such as Blockbuster, Best Buy, etc. A good amount of the
> dialogue is in Nahuatl and the rest is in Spanish.  It also has English
> subtitles.

I had a copy on order with Amazon before it was released, and it
arrived a few weeks ago.  The movie is as good as I remember it being
from its brief theatrical run many years ago.  I very highly recommend
this film to everyone on this list.

I've been studying Nahuatl sporadically during the years since first
seeing the film, and was once reasonably fluent in Spanish, though
years with little practice have eroded that fluency a great deal.
Thus, I had the gratifying experience of being able to disagree with
the English subtitle translations of two different languages in one
movie. :)

  Regards,
    Craig

-- 
Craig Berry - http://www.cine.net/~cberry/
"So we stumble and we stagger, down the snakes and up the ladder, to
the tower where the blessed hours chime."
  - Leonard Cohen, "Closing Time"
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