Christ is freed from the shackles and is in the modern city, the focus of human vices, the cult of death and sex. Here he falls into a mysterious esoteric school of magic. There are also young and depraved life characters from all over the Solar system. The guru and his disciples go to the Sacred mountain that is home to nine sages who know the secret of immortality
The Holy Mountain
| Year | 1973 |
|---|---|
| Country | Mexico, USA |
| Director | Alejandro Jodorowsky |
| Cinematography | Rafael Corkidi |
| Scriptwriters | Alejandro Jodorowsky |
| Produced | Robert TaicherAlejandro JodorowskyAllen Klein |
| Music | Don CherryRonald FrangipaneAlejandro Jodorowsky |
| Art Direction | Alejandro JodorowskyNicky Nichols |
| Editing | Federico Landeros |
| Genres | FantasyDramaAdventure |
| USA Gross | $61 001сборы |
| Release Date | November 29, 1973 |
| MPAA | R |
| Runtime | 115 min. |
Plot Summary
Did You Know?
Before filming Director Alejandro Jodorowsky's spent a week without sleep, meditating under the guidance of a guru, and spent a month in the municipality with a cast and crew of the film.
The carcasses of the lambs, the film was crucified on the cross, was borrowed at a local restaurant, and on his return was prepared and served to the visitors.
In the first funeral scene of the film shows the gestures and movements that make up the tea ceremony. Alejandro Jodorowsky's later reported that involved in the scene girls Actresses were not.
The film is based on the treatise "on the Ascent of mount Carmel" Christian mystic and reformer of the Carmelite order of Saint John of the cross (1542-1591) and a philosophical novel, "Mount Analogue: a novel about mountain climbing adventures, non-Euclidean and symbolically authentic" poet and novelist Rene domal ' (1908-1944).
Alejandro Jodorowsky's dream to shoot a scene in which the characters jump in an "infinite water" of the ocean. The actors jumped into the ocean and immediately began to sink. Followed by confusion. While the members of the crew pulled the actors out of the water, it was not before the shooting. In the end the Director gave up this scene at all.
The role of the tumor, which is removed from the neck of one of the thieves made a small octopus purchased before the shootings on the local market.
Funeral scene in the beginning of the film goes under Buddhist chants. The word "Shakyamuni" means Siddhartha Gautama, i.e., the descendant of Gotama, successful in achieving goals.
From the crew did not have permission to film the helicopter landing on a city street. One of the actors simply wore the uniform of a police officer and at the time of filming was stopped on the street movement, then the whole group made a hasty retreat.
In the scene with the decapitation actor caused Alejandro Jodorowsky's really a serious blow, cutting his neck and nearly killing. It later told the Director and the leading actor, he would have died, whether the sword is real.
