The Holy Mountain - crew, film crew
The entire team, the film crew of the film "The Holy Mountain"
La montaña sagrada (1973)
Timing:
1:53 (113 min)
7.5/10
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7.772/10
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7.7/10
52000
52000
Film crew
Director
Producer
Roberto Viskin
Producer
Executive Producer
Allen Klein
Executive Producer
Robert Taicher
Executive Producer
Editor
Federico Landeros
Editor
Costume Design
Nicky Nichols
Costume Design
Production Design
Makeup Artist
María Eugenia Luna
Makeup Artist
Original Music Composer
Ronald Frangipane
Original Music Composer
Don Cherry
Original Music Composer
Director of Photography
Camera Operator
Miguel Garzón
Camera Operator
Sound Mixer
C. Robert Fine
Sound Mixer
Screenplay
Set Designer
Painter
Luis Urias
Painter
Manuel Felguerez
Painter
Alain Glass
Painter
Special Effects
Marcelino Pacheco
Special Effects
Music Supervisor
Al Steckler
Music Supervisor
Sculptor
Luis Urias
Sculptor
Manuel Felguerez
Sculptor
Alain Glass
Sculptor
Antonio Neira
Sculptor
Assistant Director
Rafael Villaseñor Kuri
Assistant Director
Digital Intermediate Colorist
Scot Olive
Digital Intermediate Colorist
Sound Supervisor
Al Steckler
Sound Supervisor
Post-Production Manager
Roger Rodewald
Post-Production Manager
Translator
Joanne Pottlitzer
Translator
Sound Editor
Howard Lester
Sound Editor
Sound Effects
Gonzalo Gavira
Sound Effects
Presenter
Allen Klein
Presenter
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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