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Viva Zapata! is a 1952 American Western film directed by Elia Kazan and starring Marlon Brando. The screenplay was written by John Steinbeck, using Edgcomb Pinchon's 1941 book Zapata the Unconquerable as a guide. The cast includes Jean Peters, and in an Academy Award-winning performance, Anthony Quinn.
- $1.8 million
- Darryl F. Zanuck
Viva Zapata!: Directed by Elia Kazan. With Marlon Brando, Jean Peters, Anthony Quinn, Joseph Wiseman. The story of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who led a rebellion against the corrupt, oppressive dictatorship of President Porfirio Díaz in the early 20th century.
- Elia Kazan
- 68
- 3 min
Mexican rancher Emiliano Zapata (Marlon Brando) becomes a revolutionary when corrupt President Porfirio Diaz (Fay Roope) ignores the needs of his people. Zapata, his brother Eufemio (Anthony...
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- Marlon Brando
- Elia Kazan
- Biography
Film Details. Awards. Articles & Reviews. Trivia. Notes. Brief Synopsis. Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata leads the peasants against a corrupt president. Cast & Crew. Read More. Elia Kazan. Director. Marlon Brando. [Emiliano] Zapata. Jean Peters. Josefa [Zapata] Anthony Quinn. Eufemio [Zapata] Joseph Wiseman. Fernando [Aguirre] Arnold Moss.
- Elia Kazan, Horace Hough, Robert Snody
- Marlon Brando
Summaries. The story of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who led a rebellion against the corrupt, oppressive dictatorship of President Porfirio Díaz in the early 20th century. 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 ...
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John Steinbeck. Screenplay. The story of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who led a rebellion against the corrupt, oppressive dictatorship of president Porfirio Díaz in the early 20th century.