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El Topo (18)
- Consumer Advice: Contains strong bloody violence
- Run time: 2 hours 5 mins
- Starring: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Brontis Jodorowsky, Mara Lorenzio
- Directed by: Alejandro Jodorowsky
- Official Website: www.el-topo.co.uk
- Distributor: Tartan Films
Plot Synopsis
A cult classic, EL TOPO (1970) is a psychedelic, allegorical Western set in two halves that have widely been compared to the Old and New Testaments of the bible. In the first half, Jodorowsky plays a violent, black-clad gunfighter who, accompanied by his naked son, sets off on a murderous mission to challenge four zen masters of gunfighting, and learns from each of them a Great Lesson before they die. In the second half, EL TOPO sets out to find personal redemption, secluding himself in a subterranean community to learn the ways of peace, but unfortunately death is never far away.