And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself
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9/7/2003Runtime
112 minsOverview
In 1914, the Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa invites studios to shoot his actual battles against Porfírio Diaz army to raise funds for financing guns and ammunition. The Mutual Film Corporation, through producer D.W. Griffith, interests for the proposition and sends the filmmaker Frank Thayer to negotiate a contract with Pancho Villa himself.
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A metatheatrical meditation on how historical figures become images, told through the unlikely collision of a Mexican revolutionary and a Hollywood filmmaker scrambling to capture "authentic" combat for profit. It explores the strange bargain struck when warfare becomes cinema.
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Antonio Banderas
Pancho Villa
Eion Bailey
Frank Thayer
Alan Arkin
Sam Drebben
Jim Broadbent
Harry Aitken
Matt Day
John Reed
Michael McKean
William Christy Cabanne
Kyle Chandler
Raoul Walsh
Alexa Davalos
Teddy Sampson
Colm Feore
D. W. Griffith
Anthony Stewart Head
William Benton
Saul Rubinek
Eli Morton
Lilia Zelinna
Rosita
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