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When the Mountains Tremble is a Guatémaltèque film of genre War directed by Newton Thomas Sigel released in USA on 30 september 1983 with Susan Sarandon

When the Mountains Tremble (1983)

When the Mountains Tremble
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Released in USA 30 september 1983
Length 1h23
Directed by ,    
OriginGuatemala
Genres War,    Documentary,    Historical
Rating75% 3.756273.756273.756273.756273.75627

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 is being used as forensic evidence in the Guatemalan court for crimes against humanity, in the genocide case against Efraín Ríos Montt.

The film centers on the experiences of Nobel Prize winner Rigoberta Menchú, a Quiché indigenous woman who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992, nine years after the film came out. When The Mountains Tremble won the Special Jury Award at the Sundance Film Festival, the Blue Ribbon Award at the American Film Festival, and the Grand Coral Award/Best North American Documentary at the Havana Film Festival.
A follow-up film was released in 2011, titled Granito: How to Nail a Dictator.

Actors

Susan Sarandon
Shawn Elliott
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