Chac: Dios de la lluvia (1975)

Directed by

Rolando Klein

Genre

independent film

Country

Panama, Mexico

Runtime

1h 35m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 12 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Modern Maya people call on an ancient rain god using traditional rituals. The film follows their efforts and is spoken in Maya languages.

contemplativeatmosphericculturalslow-pacedgroundedobservationalsolemnritualistic

What happens

Chac: Dios de la lluvia, also released as Chac: the Rain God and simply Chac, is a 1975 film written and directed by Rolando Klein. The film involves modern Maya peoples invoking the traditional rain deity Chaac. The film is in the Maya languages. The majority of the cast speaks Tzeltal Maya, but one of the main actors, Pablo Canche Balam who plays the shaman, speaks Yucatec Maya. Alonso Méndez Ton, who plays the cacique, was born in the city of Tenejapa, in the state of Chiapas, where he collaborated in ethnographic research. He had finished his term as mayor of Tenejapa when the movie was made. The film is referenced in Richard Kadrey's novel Aloha From Hell where it is called Las montañas del Gehenna (a title that appears nowhere else). The narrator's plot description is basically accurate though he does incorrectly call it a "Mexican spaghetti western". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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