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Genres:
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Adventure /
Comedy /
Drama /
Fantasy /
Mystery /
Sci-Fi
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Release:
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Director:
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Alejandro Jodorowsky
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Actors:
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Alejandro Jodorowsky,
Richard Rutowski,
Horácio Salinas,
Zamira Saunders,
Juan Ferrara,
Adriana Page,
Burt Kleiner,
Valerie Jodorowsky,
Nicky Nichols,
Luis Lomeli,
Ana De Sade,
Chucho-Chucho,
Letícia Robles,
Connie De La Mora,
David Kapralik
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Duration:
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116 min.
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Rating:
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(7.8/10)87
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Plot Summary:
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A Christlike suppose wanders from one end to the other bizarre, ludicrous scenarios filled with religious and profane figurativeness. He meets a mystical model who introduces him to seven flush and powerful individuals, each representing a planet in the solar pattern. These seven, along with the prime mover, the marker and the steer's assistant, divest themselves of their human goods and form a catalogue of nine who will seek out the Holy Mountain, in edict to displace the gods who animate there and grace imperishable.
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Tags:
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Holy Mountain, The
A black-clad gunslinger's journey toward enlightenment involves killing four holy masters and liberating a subterranean community of freaks. Alejandro Jodorowsky's mystical western transformed him into a countercultural icon and kick-started the 'midnight movie' boom
"The mole (el topo) is an animal that digs tunnels underground, searching for the sun. Sometimes his journey leads him to the surface. When he looks at the sun, he is blinded."
Preachy, pretentious and baffling - El Topo is one of cinema's most radical and single-minded visions. Jodorowsky takes the western and injects it with references to Nietzsche's 'Thus Spake Zarathustra' and his own spiritual meanderings into the 'Bhagavad Gita', Sufi teachings, the Bible and Buddhism. The result ...
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