Chac: Dios de la lluvia

Chac: Dios de la lluvia
Directed by Rolando Klein
Produced by Rolando Klein
Written by Rolando Klein
Starring Pablo Canche Balam
Alonzo Mendez Ton
Sebastian Santis
Pedro Tiez
Music by Victor Fozado
Elisabeth Waldo
Cinematography William B. Kaplan
Álex Phillips Jr.
Edited by Harry Keramidas
Distributed by Libra Films Milestone Film & Video
Release dates
1975
Running time
95 min
Country Mexico
Panama
Language Mayan Languages
Spanish

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 speak Tzotzil Maya, but one of the main actors, Pablo Canche Balam who plays the shaman, speaks Yukatek Maya.

The film is referenced in Richard Kadrey's novel Aloha From Hell where it's 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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