A remote military outpost in Patagonia 1882 during the so-called “Conquest of the Desert” a genocidal campaign against the aboriginal population of the region. Acts of savagery abound on all sides. Captain Gunnar Dinesen has come from Denmark with his fifteen year-old daughter to take an engineering job with the argentine army. Being the only female in the area Ingeborg creates quite a stir among the men. She falls in love with a young soldier and one night they run away together. When he wakes up the Captain realises what has happened and decides... to venture into enemy territory to find the young couple. “Jauja” is the story of a man’s desperate search for his daughter a solitary quest that takes us to a place beyond time where the past vanishes and the future has no meaning. [show more]
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Viggo Mortensen stars in this Western drama directed and co-written by Lisandro Alonso. Set during the Conquest of the Desert, the story follows Gunnar Dinesen (Mortensen), a Danish engineer for the Argentine Army who is sent to survey the land, currently home to indigenous peoples, which is due to be taken over by European settlers. He brings his teenage daughter Ingeborg (Viilbjørk Malling Agger) along with him but she falls for and runs away with a young soldier, leaving Gunnar to journey through the hostile environment in search of her. Will he be reunited with his daughter?
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