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El Topo

In a surreal Western setting, a lone, masked gunslinger traverses a mystical terrain, encountering a cast of unconventional figures.

El Topo decides to confront warrior masters on a transformative desert journey. He begins with his six-year-old son, who must bury his childhood totems to become a man. El Topo (the mole) claims to be God while dressed as a gunslinger in black, riding a horse through a mystical landscape strewn with American Western and ancient Eastern religious symbols. Bandits slaughtered a village on his path, so El Topo avenges the massacred, then forcibly takes their leader's woman Mara as his. El Topo's surreal way is bloody, sexual, and self-reflective, musing of his own demons, as he tries to vanquish those he encounters.

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Info about El Topo

Studio(s): Producciones Panicas

Originally Released: United States, Dec 18, 1970

Production Country: Mexico

Budget: $1,000,000.00

Genres:Drama, Western