Watch El Topo (1970) Free Online

Release Date: 1970

Cast: Rene Barrera, Gerardo Zepeda, Brontis Jodorowsky, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Alf Junco, Mara Lorenzio, José Legarreta, Alfonso Arau

Categories: Movies, Acid Western, Hybrid Western, Experimental Film, Western, Underground, Existentialism, Drama Film, Cult, Surrealism, Avant-Garde, World Cinema, Indie, Action/Adventure

El Topo (The Mole) is a 1970 Spanish language allegorical, cult western movie and underground film, directed by and starring Alejandro Jodorowsky. Characterized by its bizarre characters and occurrences, use of maimed and dwarf performers, and heavy doses of Christian symbolism and Eastern philosophy, the film is about the eponymous character - a violent, black-clad gunfighter - and his quest for enlightenment. The film takes place in two parts. The first half resembles a western; albeit a surreal one. The second is a love story of redemption and rebirth. The first half opens with El Topo... MORE

El Topo (The Mole) is a 1970 Spanish language allegorical, cult western movie and underground film, directed by and starring Alejandro Jodorowsky. Characterized by its bizarre characters and occurrences, use of maimed and dwarf performers, and heavy doses of Christian symbolism and Eastern philosophy, the film is about the eponymous character - a violent, black-clad gunfighter - and his quest for enlightenment. The film takes place in two parts. The first half resembles a western; albeit a surreal one. The second is a love story of redemption and rebirth. The first half opens with El Topo (played by Jodorowsky himself) traveling through a desert on horseback with his naked young son. They come across a town whose inhabitants have been slaughtered, and El Topo hunts down and kills the perpetrators and their leader, a fat balding Colonel. El Topo abandons his son to the monks of the settlement's mission and rides off with a woman whom the Colonel had kept as a slave. El Topo names the woman Mara, and she convinces him to defeat four great gun masters to become the greatest gunman in the land. Each gun master represents a particular religion or philosophy, and El Topo learns from each LESS