A Place Called Chiapas (1998)
Inside the world's first postmodern revolution
In 1994, the Zapatista National Liberation Army, made up of impoverished Mayan Indians from the state of Chiapas, took over five towns and 500 ranches in southern Mexico. The government deployed its troops and at least 145 people died in the ensuing battle. Filmmaker Nettie Wild travelled to the country's jungle canyons to film the elusive and fragile life of this uprising.
- Date of release
- 1998-02-20
- TMDB
- 7.2 / 10 (12)
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Director
- Nettie Wild
Casting
- Rafael Sebastián Guillén Vicente — Self (as Subcomandante Marcos)
- Samuel Ruiz García — Self
- Javier Elorriaga — Self
- Jorge Kanter — Self
- Gonzalo Ituarte Icario — Self
Interesting facts
A Place Called Chiapas is a 1998 Canadian documentary film of first-hand accounts of the Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (EZLN) the and the lives of its soldiers and the people for whom they fight. Director Nettie Wild takes the viewer to rebel territory in the southeastern Mexican state of Chiapas, where the EZLN live and evade the Mexican Army.
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