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One of the favourite films of John Lennon, David Lynch and Marilyn Manson: a gunman all in black rides with his son into a Mexican village whose inhabitants have been massacred by bandits. The campaign of revenge that follows is at the same time a journey of spiritual enlightenment and takes him into a new dimension. He has to overcome four master gunmen in a mystical landscape strewn with Eastern and Western religious and mythological symbols. El Topo is a surreal, philosophical post-Western and was banned in Germany until 2012. "A bloody, brutal and highly entertaining film" (Die Zeit).

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Alejandro Jodorowsky (*1929) ist ein Meister des surrealen Kinos und gilt in Cineastenkreisen als einer der größten noch lebenden Kultregisseure. Lange waren die Filme des gebürtigen Chilenen nur schwer verfügbar. 2013 stellte er in Cannes mit La Danza de la Realidad seinen ersten Film nach über 20 Jahren vor.

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