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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
Synopsis. In 1909, a delegation of Indians from the Mexican state of Morelos travel to Mexico City to plead for the return of land stolen from them. They are received by president Porfirio Díaz, who has ruled as dictator for thirty-four years, and his preferential treatment of landowners is revealed by his condescending attitude toward the ...
- Elia Kazan, Horace Hough, Robert Snody
- Marlon Brando
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Oct 21, 2022. Rated: 2/5 • Jul 3, 2021. Rated: 6/10 • May 11, 2013. Mexican rancher Emiliano Zapata (Marlon Brando) becomes a revolutionary when corrupt President Porfirio Diaz (Fay Roope)...
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- Marlon Brando
- Elia Kazan
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Oct 26, 2019 · Screenplay by John Steinbeck. Director Elia Kazan and producer Darryl F. Zanuck based the filming on numerous photographs taken during the revolutionary years between 1909 and 1919 when Zapata led the fight to restore land taken from the people during the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz.
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