TV Show Details
Air Date:August 4th, 1968
Last Air Date:August 9th, 1968
Network:ZDF
Status:Ended
Genres:Drama
Original Language:German
Production Companies:ZDF
TV Show Tags:
mexican revolution
Mexikanische Revolution (1968)
ZDF
Miniseries
Plot
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 ...