Director
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Composer
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Cast
Alejandro Jodorowsky, Brontis Jodorowsky, José Legarreta
Edition 1978
125'
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1970
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Western, Drama
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Dialogue:
Spanish
El Topo decides to confront warrior masters on a transformative desert journey he begins with his six-year-old son, who must bury his childhood totems to become a man. El Topo (the mole) claims to be God, while dressed as a gun-slinger in black, riding a horse through a mystical landscape strewn with American Western and ancient Eastern religious symbols. Bandits slaughtered a village on his path, so El Topo avenges the massacred, then forcibly takes their leader's woman Mara as his. El Topo's surreal way is bloody, sexual and self-reflective, musing of his own demons, as he tries to vanquish those he encounters.
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Credits
Directors
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Composers
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Cast
Alejandro Jodorowsky, Brontis Jodorowsky, José Legarreta
Scenario
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Director of Photography
Rafael Corkidi
Editors
Federico Landeros
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Dialogue
Spanish
Countries of production
Mexico
Year
1970
Filmography
Alejandro Jodorowsky
La cravate (short, 1957), Teatro sin fin (short, 1965), Fando and Lis (1968), El Topo (1970), The Holy Mountain (1973), Tusk (1980), Santa Sangre (1989), The Rainbow Thief (1990), The Dance of Reality (2013), Endless Poetry (2016), Psychomagic, A Healing Art (2019)