missionary conflict

His films like 'Aguirre, the Wrath of God' and 'Fitzcarraldo' explore the collision between Western ambition and indigenous cultures, examining missionary zeal and its destructive consequences.

Films such as 'Silence' and 'The Last Temptation of Christ' deeply interrogate religious faith, doubt, and the moral conflicts inherent in missionary work and spiritual conviction.

His film 'The New World' portrays the encounter between European colonizers and Native Americans through a poetic lens that questions the destructive nature of religious conversion and cultural imposition.