A portrait of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s young adulthood, set in the 1940s and 50s, 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.
as Alejandro
as Jaime
as Sara / Stella Díaz Varín
as Enrique Lihn
as Old Alejandro
as Alejandro as a child
as Little Girl
as General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo
as Maria Lefevre, tarot reader
as Alejandro / Andrés Racz
as Angel of death
as Iris Cafe Old Waiter
as Young Hugo Marín
as Nicanor Parra
as Police Officer
as Fanny
as Prophetic Drunkard
as Poor Lady
as Poets Society President
as One-armed man
as Acariciada
as Clown Zanahoria / Circus Ringmaster
as Truck Driver
as Nene
as Enrique Lihn's Mother
as Enrique Lihn's Father
as Assassinated Worker
as Assassin Worker
as Drunk Man at Cafe Iris
as Clown Lechuga / Balloon Seller
as Police Clown 1
as Loro Mudo Goon 2
as Loro Mudo Goon 4
as Exhibitionist
as Don Aquiles
as Cafe Iris Second Waiter
as Delegate
as Poet
as Poet
as Prostitute
as Drunkard
as Ninja