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Fictionalized account of the life of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata from his peasant upbringing, through his rise to power in the early 1900s, to his death. Screenplay by John Steinbeck. Director Elia Kazan and producer Darryl F. Zanuck based the filming on numerous photographs taken during the revolutionary years between 1909 and 1919 when Zapata led the fight to restore land taken from the people during the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz.