# El Topo (1970)

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**Runtime**: 125 min
**Genres**: Adventure, Drama, Western
**Directed by**: Alejandro Jodorowsky
**Written by**: Alejandro Jodorowsky
**Starring**: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Brontis Jodorowsky, Mara Lorenzio, David Silva, Paula Romo, Jacqueline Luis

> *The definitive cult spaghetti western*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

The Wild Bunch meets Night of the Hunter with a pinch of spaghetti-western surreality.

A wandering, black-clad gunman drags his young son across a sun-blasted frontier to challenge mystic masters and test his own myth.

A child’s innocence is the bullet that makes the bloodlands sing. Jodorowsky’s acid western.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, mindfuck, surreal, unhinged

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