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Chac: Dios de la lluvia (1975)
A movie in Mayan languages.....
There is no Spanish usage here. The language of the villagers is Tzeltal. When the men of the village go on a short quest with a shaman into the Lacandon Jungle, you can hear Lacandon/Yucatec in greetings and interactions with local indigenous people.
There were brief shots of Palenque too, as if they were near there while being deep in jungle.
The actor playing the shaman has a classic Maya face. It is the sort that is on many ancient stelae. I fully expected to find that he had done other roles, but did not succeed in finding any such evidence. I found it annoying that the credits listed none of the Lacandons who were in the film.
Quest for the Lost City (1955)
nonsense
The film is based on the book by the Lambs, which archaeologist Frans Blom completely panned. I read the book twice to get some idea of where this "Lost City" could be located, but gave up. Carlos Frey traveled with them for a while, but left them, claiming that they were "phoneys".
Because the Lambs would never admit that they had somehow found a relatively minor site, the unique stela that they really did find has probably gone into a private collection somewhere. Their book includes what is a photo of Temple 33 at Yaxchilán, which suggests that it is of a location at their "lost city".
Even after Ginger Lamb had died, Dana maintained the fiction.