The Holy Mountain - actors, characters and roles
All actors and their roles in the film "The Holy Mountain"
La montaña sagrada (1973)
Timing:
1:53 (113 min)
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Actors and characters
Horacio Salinas
Character The Thief
Zamira Saunders
Character The Written Woman
Juan Ferrara
Character Fon
Adriana Page
Character Isla
Burt Kleiner
Character Klen
Valerie Jodorowsky
Character Sel
Nicky Nichols
Character Berg
Richard Rutowski
Character Axon
Luis Lomelí
Character Lut
Ana De Sade
Character The Prostitute
Jacqueline Voltaire
Character Tourist Wife
Chucho-Chucho
Character The Chimpanzee
Letícia Robles
Character Bald Woman 1
Connie De La Mora
Character Bald Woman 2
Pablo Leder
Character Circus Barker
Re Debris
Character Klen's Lover
Lupita Peruyero
Character Berg's Wife
José Antonio Alcaraz
Character Pantheon's Bar Owner
Robert Taicher
Character Poet
Jane Mitchell
Character Stripteaser (uncredited)
What's left behind the scenes
- Before filming began, director Alejandro Jodorowsky spent a week without sleep meditating under the guidance of a guru, and lived with the film's cast in a commune for a month.
- The lamb carcasses shown crucified on crosses in the film were borrowed from a local restaurant and, upon their return, were cooked and served to customers.
- The first ritual scene in the film depicts gestures and movements that constitute a tea ceremony. Alejandro Jodorowsky later revealed that the women in the scene were not actresses.
- The film is based on the treatise "Ascent of Mount Carmel" by the Christian mystic and reformer of the Carmelite order, Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591), and the philosophical novel "Mount Analogue: A Novel of the Art of Mountaineering, Non-Euclidean Geometry, and Symbolic Realities" by the poet and prose writer René Daumal (1908-1944).
- Alejandro Jodorowsky dreamed of filming a scene in which his characters jumped into the "infinite waters" of the ocean. The actors jumped into the ocean and immediately began to drown. Chaos ensued. While the film crew pulled the actors out of the water, no one was thinking about filming. Eventually, the director abandoned the scene altogether.
- A small octopus, purchased at a local market before filming, played the role of the tumor being removed from the neck of one of the thieves.
- The ritual scene at the beginning of the film is set to Buddhist chants. The word "Shakyamuni" means Siddhartha Gautama, i.e., a descendant of Gautama who was successful in achieving his goals.
- The film crew did not have permission to film a helicopter landing on a city street. One of the actors simply put on a police officer's uniform and stopped traffic on the street for the duration of the filming, after which the entire group hastily retreated.
- During the beheading scene, the actor dealt Alejandro Jodorowsky a genuinely serious blow, cutting his neck and nearly killing him. As the director and lead actor later recounted, he would have died if the sword had been real.
- The film is based on the treatise “Ascent of Mount Carmel” by the Christian mystic and reformer of the Carmelite Order, Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591), and the philosophical novel “Mount Analog: A Novel of Alpine Adventure, Non-Euclidean and Symbolically True” by the poet and prose writer René Daumal (1908-1944).
- Alejandro Jodorowsky dreamed of filming a scene in which his characters jump into the “infinite waters” of the ocean. The actors jumped into the ocean and immediately began to drown. Chaos ensued. While the film crew pulled the actors out of the water, no one was thinking about filming. As a result, the director abandoned the scene altogether.
- The ritual scene at the beginning of the film is accompanied by Buddhist chants. The word “Shakyamuni” means Siddhartha Gautama, i.e., a descendant of Gautama, successful in achieving his goals.
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