DEATH FOR ZAPATA

Trini – German title
Stirb für Zapata – German title
Blesky nau Mexikem – Polish title
Zapatta i djecak Trini – Yugoslavian title
Death for Zapata – English title

A 1976 East German production [DEFA (East Berlin)]
Producer: Alexander Lösche
Director: Walter Beck
Story: ‘Trini’ by Ludwig von Renn
Screenplay: Margot Beichler
Cinematography: Horst Hardt [color, widescreen]
Music: Günther Fischer (Gunter Fischer)
Song: ‘Trini’ sung by Gisela May
Running time: 88 minutes

Cast:
Trini - Gunnar Helm
Jeronimo/Geronimo - Giso Weißbach
Ambrosia - Dimitrina Savova
Paco - Gunter Friedrich
Emiliano Zapata - Ivan Tomow
Mario Puente - Michael Kann
Lieutenant Mendoza - Klaus Bamberg
Margarito - Eckhard Bilz
Doctor Leon - Holger Mahlich
Ines - Mariana Mitrowitsch (Mariana Mitrovich)
Fernando - Hans-Jürgen Müller-Hohensee
Ariola - Leon Niemczyk
Sancho - Naitscho Petrov (Naicho Petrov)
Torres - Helmut Schreiber
Gräfin Ariola - Gianina Gilge
Kutscher - Kurt Götz
Elena - Freya Klier
Hernán Alonso - Jörg Knoche
Pablo - Heinz Lyschik
Diener Manuel - Nico Turoff
Carlos - Ljubomir Dimov
Rodrigo – Wolfgang Kühne
Gonzales - Bruno Carstens
Balthasar – Georgi Rositsch
Thomas – Georgi Bakschepanow
Gräfin Ariola – Gianina Gilde
Carlota – Karin Gregorek
Eugenia – Jutta Woytasseki
Elena – Freya Klier
Hernán Alonso - Jörg Knoche
Pablo - Heinz Lyschik
Diener Manuel - Nico Turoff
Gonzales - Bruno Carstens
Torres' son - Günter Herbrich
Carlos - Ljubomir Dimov
Rodrigo - Wolfgang Kühne
Hernán Alonso - Jörg Knochee
Enrique - Angel Stojanov
Ottanez - Pedro Hebenstreit
Rosario - Ludmila Kucharcewskaja
Miguel - Otto Dierichs
Juan - Fred Alexander
Mariana - Christa Pasemann
Manuel - Nico Turoff
Braulio - Olaf Buder
Panfilio - Horst Töllner
Robena - Lydia Toschkowa
Victor - Aleko Kolschew
Alberto - Kiril Iwanow Petrow
Lorenzo - Nicolai Gospodinow
Father Benjamin - Alfred Steinbrenner
Adolfo - Uwe Wardeck
Valentin - Walter Lendrich
Joaquin - Michael Dejak
Joaquin's wife - Edith Tschammer
José - Jürgen Huth
Nicolas - Alfred Lux
Rosa - Sewerin Tenewa
Sancho's wife - Rosemarie Herzog
Francisco - Walentin Jakinow
Porfirio - Juri Sawtschew
Sergeant Fierro - Joachim Schönitz
Raffael Köhler - Fred Ludwig
Fidencio Köhler - Iwan Arschinkow
Domingo - Marin Mladenow
Brigida - Monica Bielenstein
Gomez - Gerd Funk
Lusito - Iwan Popandrejew
Elisabeta - Christina Sotirowa
Victorianu - Wladimir Arnaudow
Primitiwo - Walscho Karmaschew
Isidro - Stefan Banowski
Pablo - Heinz Herbert Lyschik
Pasqual - Max Klingberg
Kutscher - Kurt Götz
Luisa - Milka Popantonowa
officers - Hans-Joachim Leschnitz, Günter Schwaack
Hirsch's - Axel Meiners, Fred Glowacki, Fernando Cangemi


Trini is the son of a Mexican farmer from San Bartoldo. His Uncle Jeronimo is cruelly tortured by the sons of land owner Torres. Trini and the farmers from the village take revenge and destroy the land owner’s house who takes refuge on a neighbor’s estate. The local Indians defeat the master’s soldiers even before Zapata’s peasant army comes to their aid. When Trini hears of a conspiracy against Zapata, he tries to warn him. But he is too late.