Antonio Banderas Makes an Earth-Shaking Discovery in 'Finding Altamira' Trailer (Exclusive)
Anyone who’s recently read a newspaper or watched the evening news knows that tensions between science and religion continue to this day — thus making such issues continually relevant as dramatic material. Those conflicts will again take center stage in Chariots of Fire director Hugh Hudson’s latest historical tale, whose new trailer is exclusively debuting here at Yahoo Movies today. Watch it above.
In the based-on-a-true-story Finding Altamira, Antonio Banderas stars as archaeologist Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola y de la Pedrueca, who in 1878 Spain accidentally stumbles upon a cave filled with ancient paintings. Upon further investigation, it turns out that this artwork is 10,000-plus years old (the first prehistoric drawings of their kind), which inevitably elicited condemnation and denials from the era’s religious and scientific communities, who refused to acknowledge that their prior understanding about the world and human history was mistaken. Marcelino’s struggle to comprehend his discovery, and to let it be known to the world, is the clear crux of Hudson’s film, which will detail Banderas’ protagonist trying to do what he believes is right even in the face of mounting opposition from friends, colleagues, and even his young daughter Maria (Allegra Allen).
Also starring Rupert Everett and Golshifteh Farahani, Finding Altamira should serve as a sturdy vehicle for the reliably compelling Banderas — most recently seen in The 33 and Terrence Malick’s Knight of Cups — when it debuts in theaters and on-demand on Sept. 16 and then makes its way to DVD and digital services on Sept. 27.
Check out the first poster below:
