Overview

Mexico in 1910: the aged President Porfirio Diaz has ruled the country for more than thirty years. Foreign investment has made the country flourish and turned its capital Mexico City into a modern cosmopolitan city. Few people know what life is like in the interior of the country: The misery of the indigenous serfs is indescribable. Francisco Madero, a member of a millionaire family, ignites the spark of rebellion. With his pamphlet against Diaz's re-election, he, who abhors violence, initiates one of the bloodiest revolutions in history ...

Genres

Cast

Konrad Georg

Francisco Madero

Erik Schumann

Emiliano Zapata

Horst Niendorf

Francisco Villa

Claus Biederstaedt

Jose Maria Gonzales

Ernst Fritz Fürbringer

Porfirio Díaz