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Santa Sangre

1989 | Italy, Mexico | Color | min.

A young man is confined to a mental hospital. Through a flashback we see that he was traumatized as a child. When he and his family were circus performers, he saw his father cut off the arms of his mother, a religious fanatic and leader of the heretical church of Santa Sangre (“Holy Blood”). Back into the present, he escapes and joins his mother. Against his will, he “becomes her arms” and the two undertake a grisly campaign of murder and revenge.

Direction: Jodorowsky, Alejandro

Script: Argento, Claudio | Jodorowsky, Alejandro | Leoni, Roberto

Country: Italy, Mexico

Production: Argento, Claudio

Production Company: Productora Fílmica Real | Produzioni Intersound

Photography: Nannuzzi, Daniele

Edition: Bonanni, Mauro

Sound: Camacho, Roberto

Music: Boswell, Simon

Art Direction: Luna, Alejandro

Year of participation at FICM:
2013

Films by the same director presented at FICM:

The Holy Mountain (1973) Fando and Lis (1968) El Topo (1970) The Dance of Reality (2013) Endless Poetry (2016)