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In 1909, Emiliano Zapata, a well-born but penniless Mexican Mestizo from the southern state of Morelos, comes to Mexico City to complain that their arable land has been enclosed, leaving them only in the barren hills. His expressed dissatisfaction with President Diazs response puts him in danger, and when he rashly rescues a prisoner from the local militia, he becomes an outlaw. Urged on by a strolling intellectual, Fernando, he supports the exiled Don Francisco Madero against Diaz and becomes the leader of his forces in the South as Francisco Pancho Villa is in the North. Diaz flees, and Madero takes his place, but he is a puppet president in the hands of the army leader Huerta, who has him assassinated when he tries to express solidarity for the men who fought for him. Zapata and Villa return to arms; successful in victory, they seek a leader for the country. Zapata unwillingly takes a job, but later he responds to petitioners from his own village with no more reassurance than Diaz had years before. Realizing that with power his idealism has gone, he returns with them to Morelos, specifically to investigate their complaints against his brother Eufemio. New leaders take his place and, egged on by indomitable Fernando, they decide that Zapata is a threat to their regime.
In 1909 Mexico, the people in the state of Morelos rise up against the tyrannical regime of President Porfirio Diaz, led by simple, illiterate peasant-farmer Emilio Zapata. All he wants is justice and fairness for his people, but as things progress he is drawn deeper into a civil war where allies and enemies are often difficult to tell apart.
Marlon Brando
Emiliano Zapata
Jean Peters
Josefa Zapata
Anthony Quinn
Eufemio Zapata
Joseph Wiseman
Fernando Aguirre
Arnold Moss
Don Nacio
Alan Reed
Pancho Villa
Margo
Soldadera
Harold Gordon
Francisco Indalecio Madero
Lou Gilbert
Pablo
Frank Silvera
Victoriano Huerta
Florenz Ames
Senor Espejo
Richard Garrick
Old General
Fay Roope
Diaz
Mildred Dunnock
Senora Espejo
Rico Alaniz
Guard
Daniel Armijo
Undetermined Secondary Role
Ross Bagdasarian
Officer
Salvador Baguez
Soldier
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