The Settlers

2023 Drama
67%

Chile, early 20th century. José Menéndez, a wealthy landowner, hires three horsemen to mark out the perimeter of his extensive property and open a route to the Atlantic Ocean across vast Patagonia.

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by Brian Lloyd
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'The Settlers' is a grim tale of race and colonisation

A local don (Alfredo Castro) orders a Scottish soldier (Mark Stanley) to lead an expedition across his lands to ensure that they're claimed from the government. Joining him is a violent American mercenary (Benjamin Westfall) and a Chilean mestizo (Camilo Arancibia), but in truth, the expedition is a hunting party against the Ona people, natives of Tierra del Fuego...

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