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Santa Sangre
A young man is confined in a mental hospital. Through a flashback we see that he was traumatized as a child, when he and his family were circus performers: he saw his father cut off the arms of his mother, a religious fanatic and leader of the heretical church of Santa Sangre ("Holy Blood"), and then commit suicide. Back in the present, he escapes and rejoins his surviving and armless mother.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Casts & Crew
Axel Jodorowsky
Blanca Guerra
Guy Stockwell
Thelma Tixou
Sabrina Dennison
Adan Jodorowsky
Faviola Elenka Tapia
Teo Jodorowsky
Jesús Juárez
Gloria Contreras
Mary Aranza
Sergio Bustamante
S. Rodriguez
Zonia Rangel Mora
Joaquín García Vargas
Teo Tapia
Edgar E. Jiménez Nava
Jacobo Lieberman
Héctor Ortega
Brontis Jodorowsky
Valérie Crouzet
Óscar Serafín Álvarez
Billy Motton
Hilario 'Popitekus' Vargas
Guadalupe 'TNT' Aguilar
Arturo 'Rinoceronte' Contreras
Gustavo Aguilar Tejada
Roger Fayard Arroyo
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The footage is recorder in ICA, London, in December 2002 and features Jodorowsky on-stage after the screening of "Santa Sangre".
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