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1970 | Color | 124 min

On their journey across the desert of a symbolic western landscape, the gunman El Topo and his son face a band of fetishists led by a lecherous coronel who keeps a Franciscan congregation terrorized. After killing them, El Topo leaves his son with the monks and goes off in search of the four gun masters—who a woman he loves has convinced him to kill—and is rescued from death by a group of dwarfs and disabled outcasts whom he tries to free.

 


Country: México, Estados Unidos
Direction: Jodorowsky; Alejandro
Script: Jodorowsky; Alejandro
Production: López Moctezuma; Juan, Rosenberg; Saúl
Photography: Corkidi; Rafael
Sound: Gavira; Gonzalo, Lupercio; Lilia
Music: Méndez; Nacho, Jodorowsky; Alejandro
Cast:John; Robert, Lorenzio; Mara, Jodorowsky; Brontis, Jodorowsky; Alejandro, Arau; Alfonso
Art direction: Jodorowsky; Alejandro
Participation year at FICM: 2013

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