1492 Conquest Of Paradise

VHS, PG13, 142 minutes, PARAMOUNT

It is not enough to dream. Dreams become the stuff of history only when people are bold enough to live them. 1492: Conquest of Paradise is adventure on a grand scale, filled with the dazzling visuals of director Ridley Scott (Alien, Blade Runner, Thelma & Louise) and starring Gerard Depardieu, Armand Assante, and Sigourney Weaver. Depardieu plays Christopher Columbus, fearless in his vision of a new route to the East...yet not faultless in the treachery and carnage his voyages would bring. The film chronicles the first two landmark voyages of this Admiral of the Ocean Sea and takes us to the brink of his third and last. Throughout, it reveals the power and passions of history in the making: bravery and blindness, triumph and despair, Old World arrogance and New World innocence. It is the Conquest of Paradise, the beginning of a New Age.