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When The Mountains Tremble is a 1983 documentary film produced by Skylight Pictures about the war between the Guatemalan Military and the Mayan Indigenous population of Guatemala. Footage from this film was used as forensic evidence in the Guatemalan court for crimes against humanity, in the genocide case against Efraín Ríos Montt.
When the Mountains Tremble is the story of how the Guatemalan people came to take up arms attempting to overthrow a brutal military dictatorship and regain their democracy. Maya K’iche’ leader Rigoberta Menchú was there; she tells the story.
- 83 min
When the Mountains Tremble, filmed in 1982 at the height of the Guatemalan Army's repression against the Mayan indigenous people, has become a classic political documentary. It describes the struggle of the largely Indian peasantry against a heritage of state and foreign oppression.
When the Mountains Tremble (1983) introduced indigenous rights leader Rigoberta Menchú as the storyteller in her role to expose repression during Guatemala’s brutal armed conflict....
Re-creations dramatize tragic accounts of civil war and effects of intervention told by a radicalized Guatemalan peasant.
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- Newton Thomas Sigel, Pamela Yates
- Documentary
- Rigoberta Menchú, Susan Sarandon
This latest version of the 1983 classic on war and social revolution in Guatemala describes the struggle of the largely Indian peasantry against a legacy of state and foreign oppression, centered on the experiences of Nobel Peace Laureate Rigoberta Menchú, a Maya K'iche indigenous leader.
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When The Mountains Tremble Digitally remastered to commemorate its 20th Anniversary, this special edition chronicles the astonishing story of one woman who stood up for her people and helped wage a rebellion in the wake of seemingly unconquerable oppression.
