ORAL PRESENTATION

Choosing a film

VIVA ZAPATA!

Directed by: Elia Kazan (1952)

Country: United States Duration: 121 minutes Type: Biográfico, histórico,

drama Original language: English.

REASON FOR CHOOSING A PARTICULAR FILM

I love Latin American history I showed this film at the university

TYPE OF FILME

Biography and historical drama

THE SETTING

United States, 1952

THE CHARACTERS

Emiliano Zapata (the main character)

Emiliano Zapata. Original picture

Josefina Zapata (Emiliano Zapata´s wife)

EUFEMIO ZAPATA (EMILANO ZAPATA´S BROTHER).

Others characters:

Porfirio Díaz Francisco Madero Victoriano Huerta“Pancho” Villa.

THE PLOT

The Mexican farmers requesting lands

Emiliano Zapata , Pancho Villa and Francisco Madero deposed to Porfirio Diaz in 1911.

Villa and Zapata. Original picture

Eufemio Zapata becames a dictator.

Madero – Huerta – Carranza.

Emiliano Zapata is murdered in an ambuscade in 1917.

Emiliano Zapata Original picture