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 ...
Cast
- Konrad Georg as Francisco Madero
- Erik Schumann as Emiliano Zapata
- Horst Niendorf as Francisco Villa
- Claus Biederstaedt as Jose Maria Gonzales
- Ernst Fritz Fürbringer as Porfirio Díaz