Alejandro Jodorowsky
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Alejandro Jodorowsky or Alexandro Jodorowsky (born February 7, 1929, in Tocopilla, Chile) is an actor, playwright, director, producer, composer, mime, comic book writer and psychotherapist. He is particularly known for having directed a handful of esoteric, surreal and shocking films, and for having written several comic books. The revered cult filmmaker once stated, "I ask of cinema what most North Americans ask of psychedelic drugs."
Life
Born to Ashkenazi Jewish parents of Russian origin. In 1973 he adopted Mexican citizenship, but some years later he was naturalized as French.
Filmography
- Les têtes interverties (1957)
- La Cravate
- The Transposed Heads
- The Severed Heads
- Fando y Lis (1967)
- Fando and Lis
- El Topo (1970)
- The Mole
- The Holy Mountain (1973)
- Tusk (1978)
- Santa Sangre (1989)
- Holy Blood
- The Rainbow Thief (1990)
- King Shot (TBA)
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