Viva Zapata! (1952)
Directed by Elia Kazan
The story of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who led a rebellion against the corrupt, oppressive dictatorship of president Porfirio Díaz in the early 20th century.
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What critics compared Viva Zapata! to
In a 1985 essay filmmaker and film theorist Thom Andersen cites Robin Blackburn's observation that middle-class sociology begins to understand modern revolutions only when they fail; he then goes on to say that this applies equally to dramatic art and that films such as The Battle of Algiers, Burn!, and Viva Zapata! idealize and glorify political defeat.