Film Forum

U.S., 1952
Directed by Elia Kazan
Starring Marlon Brando, Jean Peters, Anthony Quinn
WINNER Cannes Film Festival – Best Actor (Marlon Brando), 1952
Approx. 113 min. DCP.

Brando’s Mexican peasant revolutionary Emiliano Zapata finds that, once in power, he too — along with Oscar®-winning brother Anthony Quinn — can be corrupted. Using Eisensteinian visuals Kazan considered this his first really personal film, co-conceived from the very beginning with scripter John Steinbeck. 

Reviews

“Certainly this ardent portrait of [Zapata] throbs with a rare vitality, and a masterful picture of a nation in revolutionary torment has been got by director Elia Kazan.”
– Bosley Crowther, The New York Times