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Release year: 1968

Storyline

Fando and his partially-paralyzed lover Lis search for the mythical city of Tar. Based on Jodorowsky's memories of a play by surrealist Fernando Arrabal.

Top credits

Directors

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Writers

Cast

Tamara Garina — Pope
Sergio Kleiner — Fando
Diana Mariscal — Lis
María Teresa Rivas — Fando's Mother

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Did you know

• When the film premiered at the 1968 Acapulco Film Festival, the first screening erupted into a riot. Director Alejandro Jodorowsky had to leave the theatre by sneaking outside to a waiting limousine. When the crowd outside the theatre recognized him, the car was pelted with rocks. The following week, the film opened to sell-out crowds in Mexico City, but fights broke out in the audiences and the film was banned by the Mexican government. Jodorowsky himself was nearly deported and the scandal provided a lot of fodder for the Mexican newspapers.

• The character of the bearded, elderly pope is played by actress and dancer Tamara Garina. Her voice is dubbed by a man, just like practically all the actors on screen are dubbed by different voice actors.

• An excerpt of dialogue plays out the otherwise instrumental track 'The Hawthorne Passage' by American blackened folk metal band Agalloch on their 2002 album The Mantle Lis (singing): Yo moriré y nadie se acordará de mí. De mí... Fando: Sí, Lis, yo me acordaré de ti e iré a verte al cementerio con una flor y un perro, y en tu funeral cantaré, en voz baja, "¡Qué bonito es un entierro!"