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El Topo
1970
· Movie
· 125 min
B
MEANRANK
72/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1900
- IMDb #1813
- Rotten Tomatoes #1493
- Letterboxd #1241
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2068
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1365
+5 more
- Metacritic Critics #1985
- Criticker #580
- Kinopoisk #1504
- AlloCiné #2208
- Trakt #3110
Every rating
63–83
out of 100
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 63, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 83.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →El Topo decides to confront warrior Masters on a trans-formative desert journey he begins with his 6 year old son, who must bury his childhood totems to become a man.
Details
- Director
- Alejandro Jodorowsky
- Writer
- Alejandro Jodorowsky
- Studio
- Producciones Panicas
- Released
- 18 December 1970
- Country
- Mexico
- Language
- Spanish
- Runtime
- 125 min
- Rated
- NR
- Budget
- $400.0K
- Awards
- 0 wins, 1 nomination
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
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| International Submission to the Academy Awards 1972 | International Submission to the Academy Awards | Mexico | Nominee |
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International Submission to the Academy Awards
1 nomination
| International Submission to the Academy Awards | Mexico | Nominee |