Chac: The Rain God
1974, NR, 95 min.
Directed by Rolando Klein, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Pablo Canche Balam, Alonzo Mendez Ton, Sebastian Santis.

Milestone Films has struck a new print of this lost 1974 film made by first-time Chilean filmmaker Klein and starring nonprofessional actors from Chiapas, Mexico, where it was made. The story is a mystical adventure about a drought-stricken village that seeks a diviner (or witch doctor) to conjure rain.

This article appears in March 23 • 2001.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.