Genre:
Drama
Release Date: 11/02/2004
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: Espanol
Sound: DD5.1/DD2
Run Time: 258 Minutes
Distributor/Studio: Image Entertainment
The eponymous character at the heart of the Spanish-language
epic Zapata needs little introduction, even to non-history buffs. But this motion picture offers an unusual take on the mercurially tempered Mexican general by creating a fictionalized series of events from his personal life. In this revisionist piece of history,
Emiliano Zapata -- while laboring as a Horse Master for
Ignacio de la Torre y Mier -- falls passionately for
Rosa Maria Rendón, the daughter of a wealthy landowner of British extraction. Even as
Emiliano and
Rosa become more committed and bound, amorously, to one another, they recognize the impossibility of their relationship given differences in race, class, social status, and the roles they will ultimately play as the sweeping currents of history pull them apart.
Walter Doehner directs;
Demian Bichir stars as
Zapata, with
Lorena Rojas as
Rosa Maria Rendón.
~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
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