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A Place Called Chiapas

Inside the world's first postmodern revolution

7.2/ 1019981h 33m
Documentary

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.

Directed by Nettie Wild

The cast

Faces behind the story

Rafael Sebastián Guillén Vicente
Self (as Subcomandante Marcos)
Samuel Ruiz García
Self
Javier Elorriaga
Self
Jorge Kanter
Self
Gonzalo Ituarte Icario
Self

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