El Topo

El Topo

1970 | United States, Mexico | 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.

Direction: Jodorowsky, Alejandro

Script: Jodorowsky, Alejandro

Country: United States, Mexico

Production: López Moctezuma, Juan | Rosenberg, Saúl

Production Company: Producciones Pánicas

Photography: Corkidi, Rafael

Edition: Landeros, Federico

Sound: Gavira, Gonzalo | Lupercio, Lilia

Music: Jodorowsky, Alejandro | Méndez, Nacho

Cast: Arau, Alfonso | Jodorowsky, Alejandro | Jodorowsky, Brontis | John, Robert | Lorenzio, Mara

Art Direction: Jodorowsky, Alejandro

Year of participation at FICM:
2013

Films by the same director presented at FICM:

The Holy Mountain (1973) Fando and Lis (1968) Santa Sangre (1989) The Dance of Reality (2013) Endless Poetry (2016)

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