The Cinema Guild, via Indiewire, has released the first US trailer for Lisandro Alonso’s Jauja.
Jauja is the story of Captain Gunnar Dinesen, who arrived in late 1800s Patagonia with his fifteen year-old daughter to take an engineering job with the Argentine army.
Viggo Mortensen stars in the lead, alongside Diego Roman, Ghita Nørby, Arce Mariano, Viilbjørk Malling Agger, Misael Saavedra, and Adrián Fondari.
Jauja is out in the US on March 20th. There’s no Irish release as of yet.
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.