“Having broken away from my illusory self, I was desperately seeking a path and a meaning to life.” This phrase perfectly sums up Alejandro Jodorowsky’s biographical project: reconstituting the incredible adventure of his life. Alejandro Jodorowsky was born in 1929 in Tocopilla, a coastal town on edge of the Chilean desert, where this film was shot. It was there where he discovered the fundamentals of reality, as he underwent an unhappy and alienated childhood as part of an uprooted family.
Brontis Jodorowsky Pamela Flores Jeremias Herskovits Alejandro Jodorowsky Bastián Bodenhöfer Andrés Cox Adan Jodorowsky Axel Jodorowsky Alizarine Ducolomb Sergio Vargas Patricio Brambilla Juan Quezada Adrián Salgado Ítalo Tai Eugenio Morales Carlos Cantero Luz Jiménez Charles Bustos Hugo Marín Nelson González Rorigo Orellana Helen Tabilo Demetrio Spataris Verónica Power Nicolás de Terán Sergio Monge Victor Toledo Brittany Star Ricardo Zepeda Tomás Álvarez Dilan Avendaño Marcelo Alonso Sebastián Layseca Alejandro Sieveking Gastón Pauls Sissi Fuentealba Gastón Salgado Nicolás Saavedra Pedro Fontaine Matias Infante Claudia Castillo Patricia Godoy Rodrigo Orellana Ian Bodenhöfer Felipe Pizarro Sáenz De Urtury Ángela Acuña Eyal Meyer
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