Chac: Dios de la lluvia

Chac: Dios de la lluvia, also released as Chac: the Rain God and simply Chac, is a 1975 film written and directed by .

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 Yukatek 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 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".

External links[]

• IMDB listing
• Review of the film: Chac: The Rain God
• Chac: The making of a “Mayan” movie? Review by Sheldon H. Davis
• Debate on Chac by Rolando Klein and Shelton H. Davis
• In Search of a Universal Language: Interview with Rolando Klein
• Chac: Dios de la lluvia at AllMovie

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