Amerigo Vespucci: Forgotten Namesake of America

8.0 2023 50 min
Documentary History

Everyone knows Columbus, but few know Vespucci. And yet, the continent of America was named after the banker and explorer Amerigo Vespucci. This film attempts to find the truth about the almost unknown Italian – was he…

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Director
Eike Schmitz
Writer
Susanne Utzt

Cast

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Michele Guidi Amerigo Vespucci
Tommaso Giusto Alonso de Hojeda
Pedro Álvarez Molina Christoph Kolumbus
Sascha Rotermund Self - Narrator (voice)

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