Movie
Endless Poetry
Overview
A portrait of the director’s young adulthood, set in the 1940s–1950s, in the electric capital city of Santiago. There, he decides to become a poet and is introduced, by destiny, into the foremost bohemian and artistic circle of the time.
Details
- Release date
- 2016-03-23
- Runtime
- 128 min
- Genres
- Fantasy, Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Openvizor, Satori Films, Le Pacte, Le Soleil Films, Detalle Films, Uplink
- Country
- Chile, Mexico, France, Japan, United Kingdom
- Original language
- ES
Cast
- Adan Jodorowsky as Alejandro
- Brontis Jodorowsky as Jaime
- Pamela Flores as Sara / Stella Díaz Varín
- Leandro Taub as Enrique Lihn
- Alejandro Jodorowsky as Old Alejandro
- Jeremias Herskovits as Alejandro as a child
- Julia Avendaño as Little Girl
- Bastián Bodenhöfer as General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo
- Carolyn Carlson as Maria Lefevre, tarot reader
- Ali Ahmad Sa'Id Esber as Alejandro / Andrés Racz
- Kaori Ito
- Carlos Leay as Angel of death
Crew
- Alejandro Jodorowsky - Director
- Alejandro Jodorowsky - Screenplay
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