Zapata: El sueo del hroe

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Wikipedia article 'Zapata: El sueo del hroe' (in English: 'Zapata: The dream of a hero'), also titled simply 'Zapata', is a 2004 Mexican film. This fictionalized portrayal of Emiliano Zapata, played by Alejandro Fernndez, as an Indigenous Mexican, directed by Alfonso Arau, was reportedly the most expensive Mexican movie ever produced, with a massive ad campaign, and the largest ever opening in the nation's history. Unusual in the Mexican film industry, 'Zapata' was financed independently. 'Zapata' made its U.S. debut at the Santa Fe Film Festival on December 3, 2004 at the Center for Contemporary Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Plot The film happens in the last quarter of the 19th century and the first nineteen years of the twentieth, during the dictatorship of Porfirio Daz, the presidency of Francisco I. Madero, the military revolt of Victoriano Huerta, the Convention of Generals and, finally, the death of Zapata, already in the constitutionalist stage of Venustiano Carranza. The film does not try to be a chair of history but a fable that obtains the identification of the spectators with the hero, through the successive confrontation of the protagonist with the power, represented in the antagonistic figure of Victoriano Huerta. In it, Emiliano Zapata appears like predestining, "the signal" in his chest, the mark or spot with the form of a little hand is the sign that identifies him as "the one" by the Huehuetlatolli (the heirs of the tradition) to be their guide. Thus, we see the birth of Emiliano, where he is recognized like the possible leader of his town. Zapata will have to break with his vision of the "real reality" and to enter in that other magical knowledge of the Mexican tradition and its inscrutable religious "sincretismo". Cast (in credits order) Patricia Velsquez as Josefa Lucero as Esperanza Jess Ochoa as Victoriano Huerta Jaime Camil as Eufemio Soledad Ruiz as Juana Lucia Arturo Beristin as Gonzlez Julio Bracho as Guajardo Alberto Estrella as Martinez Jos Luis Cruz ngeles Cruz Evangelina Sosa as Azucena Anglica Aragn as Mesera 1 Carmen Salinas as Mesera 2 Blanca Tenario as Mesera 3 Fernando Becerril as Presidente Francisco Madero Juan Pelez Miguel Couturier as Limantour Justo Martnez as Porfirio Daz Gerardo Martnez as De la O Rafael Corts as Arturo Alejandro Calva as Gilgerdo Magaa Omar Snchez as Otilio Montaa Javier Escobar as Joaquin Eduardo Ocaa as Pablo Isi Rojano as Sobrina Marcial Alejandro as Trovador Francisco Badillo as Zapatista 1 Raymundo Ibarra as Zapatista 2 Mayolival Del Monte as Mujer Zapatista Luis Enrique Parra as Francisco Villa Sharmel Altamirano Alejandra Palacios Jaime Estrada as Gabriel Zapata Anglica Lara as Madre de Zapata Rafael Velasco as Don Lzaro Csar Valdz as Sargento Julian Sedgwick as USA Ambassador Paulino Hemmer as Secretario de Huerta Gerardo Prez Alejandro Fernndez as Emiliano Zapata Omar Espino as Eufemio Nio Paola Ayala as Josefa Nia Jos Antonio Gutirrez as Mensajero Federal Eleno Guzmn as Soldado Evangelina Martnez as Vieja Jos Mara Negri as Sacerdote Godofredo Villegas as Maestro de Ceremonias Brenda Angulo as Prostituta Carla Hernndez as Prostituta Tony Helling as Prostituta Liliana Lago as Prostituta Juana Ponce as Prostituta Maria Guadalupe Hernndez as Prostituta Gabriela Tavela as Ama de llaves Alfonso Garza as Marido celoso Nayeli Mrquez as Esposa Infiel Luis Rubiera as Asistante de Gonzalez Eduardo Francisco Galeano as Asistante de Gonzalez Soundtrack
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