Director: Felipe Cazals
Country: Mexico
Year: 1970.
Antonio Aguilar portrays Emiliano Zapata
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Director: Alberto Isaac.
Country: 1976
Year: Mexico
This film narrates one of the bloodiest episodes in national history: la Decena Trágica starts with when General Victoriano Huerta orders the assassination of President Francisco I. Madero, Vice President José María Pino Suárez and Senator Belisario Domínguez. The film recreates the moment of Huerta's execution, as well as that of the generals Bernardo Reyes, Manuel Mondragón and Félix Díaz.
“Lo único que nos enseña la historia es que el hombre no aprende nada de la historia”. Con esta frase comienza la película de Alberto Isaacs (Source: https://elpais.com/cultura/2015/11/20/actualidad/1447993725_810075.html)
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Director: Carlos Rodrigo Montes de Oca
Country: Mexico
Year: 2010.
Historical photographs serve as an archive of powerful images that provide us with the narratives about the past. In the case of Mexico, the visual memory of the Revolution is strong due to the Casasola archive. It consists of over eight hundred thousand individual items. It was founded by Agustín and Miguel, who are considered to be the pioneers of photojournalism in Mexico. The emblematic moving images of revolutionaries such as Emiliano Zapata and Pancho Villa are also part of this collection. The documentary creates an impeccable narrative of the Mexican Revolution.
Attribution:
Debroise, Olivier, and Stella S. Rego. Mexican Suite: A History of Photography in Mexico. Austin, Tex: Univ. of Texas Press, 2001. Print.
Director: Mario Hernández
Country: Mexico
Antonio Aguilar plays Emiliano Zapata.
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Director: Emilio "El Indio" Fernández.
Country: Mexico
Year: 1956
This film is based on a masterpiece by Rodolfo Usigli whose title is "El gesticulador." The main character of this film is a Professor who falls out with the Rector and his cabinet and thus returns to his native village with his wife and two children. He starts growing corn but the crops fail, in desperation and by choice he assumes a false identity of his grandfather- a revolutionary hero of Mexican Revolution. People of the village rally around him during the election, but he is shot and killed before he can tell "el pueblo," about his true identity.
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Director/s: Various
Country: Mexico
Year: 2010.
The significance of the revolution in today's Mexico is the principal goal of the various directors that each show different aspects of the revolution and its effect on Mexican society through their own lense.
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