Roland Joffé

Roland Joffé

Roland Joffé (/ˈdʒɒfeɪ/; born 17 November 1945) is an English film and television director, producer and screenwriter. He is known for directing the critically acclaimed films The Killing Fields (1984) and The Mission (1986), earning him Academy Award nominations for Best Director. The latter won the Palme d’Or at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival.

Joffé began his career in television, with early credits including episodes of Coronation Street and an adaptation of The Stars Look Down for Granada. He gained a reputation for hard-hitting political stories with the series Bill Brand and factual dramas for Play for Today. In the late 1980s, he co-founded the production company Lightmotive with Ben Myron.

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Roland Joffé Movies

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The Mission

The Mission (1986)

Action Adventure Drama
Roland Joffé's sprawling epic traces the collision between faith and violence in colonial South America. A Jesuit missionary and a reformed slave trader find unexpected kinship building a remote settlement...
Score 7.4

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