El Topo (1970)

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Directed by

Alejandro Jodorowsky

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Alejandro Jodorowsky
El Topo

Brontis Jodorowsky
Hijo / Topo's son

Alfonso Arau
Bandido 1

Gerardo Zepeda
Bandido 4

Vicente Lara
Bandido 8

Mara Lorenzio
Marah / La mujer - The Woman

David Silva
Coronel

Agustín Isunza
Maestro 4

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Alejandro Jodorowsky

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Spaghetti head trip

16 years, 11 months ago at May 22 9:59

Rollo Tomasi

4 votes

I left my sofa having experienced the most surreal filmic experience of my life. I thought 'Tommy' was strange until I saw El Topo.

El Topo can be best described as a psychedelic head trip western. It's modeled on the spaghetti westerns of the late sixties, but that does not mean you should expect a Leone clone.

Four thousand buckets of fake blood were used during th... read more

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Brandon Carreon

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cruda y profunda. violenta pero poetica.asi puedo describir esta maravillosa pelicula.
fotografia y direccion esotericas, actuaciones muy bien logradas y un soundtrack turbio.

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5 years, 10 months ago at Jul 1 18:01

JaJlN2

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Wow, vaya viaje es esta película, fácilmente una de las más raras y extremas que haya visto, es bastante extraña la forma en como combina múltiples elementos e ideas, como alegorías religiosas y criticas sociales que lo vuelven un spaghetti western muy atípico. Esto es algo que le parecerá molesto a algunos con su contenido tan brutal, así como el alto nivel de contenido explicito exagera... read more

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A mysterious black-clad gunfighter wanders a mystical Western landscape encountering multiple bizarre characters.

Release date: 15 April 1971

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