Chac: The Rain God (1975)

1h 35m
Running Time

January 1, 1975
Release Date

Chac: The Rain God (1975)

1h 35m
Running Time

January 1, 1975
Release Date

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Plot.

Unique story of a village's attempts to solve drought by appealing to the powers of a mysterious mountain-dwelling diviner.

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Cast & Crew.

Pablo Canche Balam

Pablo Canche Balam

The Diviner

Alonzo Mendez Ton

Alonzo Mendez Ton

The Cacique

Sebastian Santis

Sebastian Santis

Mute Boy

Pedro Tiez

Pedro Tiez

Father

Antonio Osil

Antonio Osil

Principale

Antonio Ton

Antonio Ton

Principale

Alonso Puj

Alonso Puj

Principale

Antonio Castellanos

Antonio Castellanos

First Captain

Details.

Release Date
January 1, 1975

Original Name
Chac: Dios de la lluvia

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 35m

Genres

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Wiki.

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".

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