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Status
Released
Release
2016
Runtime
2h 8m
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A portrait of the director’s young adulthood, set in the 1940s–1950s, in the electric capital city of Santiago. There, he decides to become a poet and is introduced, by destiny, into the foremost bohemian and artistic circle of the time.
43 Cast Members
Adan Jodorowsky
Alejandro
Brontis Jodorowsky
Jaime
Pamela Flores
Sara / Stella Díaz Varín
Leandro Taub
Enrique Lihn
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Old Alejandro
Jeremias Herskovits
Alejandro as a child
Julia Avendaño
Little Girl
Bastián Bodenhöfer
General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo
Carolyn Carlson
Maria Lefevre, tarot reader
Ali Ahmad Sa'Id Esber
Alejandro / Andrés Racz
Kaori Ito
Carlos Leay
Angel of death
Hugo Marín
Iris Cafe Old Waiter
Felipe Pizarro Sáenz De Urtury
Young Hugo Marín
Felipe Ríos
Nicanor Parra
Rodrigo Velasquez
Police Officer
Paula Espinoza
Fanny
Alejandro Sieveking
Prophetic Drunkard
Clara María Escobar
Poor Lady
Jorge Magni
Poets Society President
