And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself

original title:
And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself
other titles:
Pancho Villa - Mexican Outlaw
country / year of production:
USA / 2003
original length:
108 min. , color
premiere:
7 September 2003
genre:
adventure
based on:
director:
Bruce Beresford
film script:
Larry Gelbart
producer:
Diane Isaacs , Sue Jett , Tony Mark
cinematographer:
Peter James
editor:
Mark Warner , Edward Warschilka
composer:
Stephen Endelman , Joseph Vitarelli
cast (role):
Antonio Banderas (Pancho Villa) , Eion Bailey (Frank Thayer) , Alan Arkin (Sam Drebben) , Jim Broadbent (Harry Aitken) , Matt Day (John Reed) , Antonio Banderas , Eion Bailey , Alan Arkin , Jim Broadbent , Matt Day
more:
plot synopsis:
In 1914 Mexican rebel Pancho Villa needed money to finance his crusade against the corrupt government. He and US film producer D.W. Griffith plan to film Pancho's men in their fight against the government's army. So Frank Thayer and his film crew are sent to Mexico and Thayer gets horrified and at the same time fascinated by the rebel. In the end Villa's plan does not succeed as the American public turns its back towards the film and Villa's intentions to free his country.
keywords:
made-for-TV film , authenticity , resistance, opposition , based on a true story
war:
Mexican Revolution 1910-1921
literature:
Martín Luis Guzmán. El águila y la serpiente. Madrid: Ed. de Cultura Hispánica, 1994.

Friedrich Katz. The life and times of Pancho Villa. Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press, 1998.

Hans Werner Tobler. Die mexikanische Revolution: Gesellschaftlicher Wandel und politischer Umbruch, 1876-1940. Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp, 1984.
remarks:
A production of US cable network HBO, won an "Emmy" in 2004.
availability:
VHS NTSC, DVD