Santa Sangre(Movie, 1989)

Name: Santa Sangre
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Drama
Released: 1989
Duration: T02:3:00
Rating: 3.5

Original title: "Santa sangre" (English/EN)

FSK: 18+ years

| 2h 3min | Genres: Horror, Mystery, Drama

Rating: 3.5/5 (with 172 votes)

Santa Sangre (English: Holy Blood) is a 1989 avant-garde surrealistic psychological horror film directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky and written by Jodorowsky along with Claudio Argento and Roberto Leoni. It stars Axel Jodorowsky, Adán Jodorowsky, Teo Jodorowsky, Blanca Guerra, Thelma Tixou, and Guy Stockwell. An international co-production of Mexico and Italy, the film is set in Mexico, and tells the story of Fenix, a boy who grew up in a circus and his struggle with childhood trauma. It is signed on Empire magazine's 2008 list of the 500 Greatest Movies of All Time. ()

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Available languages: German, English
Available subtitles: German
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Available subtitles: German
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About Santa Sangre

A young man is confined in a mental hospital. Through a flashback we see that he was traumatized as a child, when he and his family were circus performers. Back in the present, he escapes and rejoins his surviving and armless mother.

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Trailer for Santa Sangre + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

Jodorosky's Santa Sangre - Original Theatrical Trailer | High-Def Digest(Trailer, 2:50)

Additional Information

Production countries: Italy, Mexico

Shot in: Mexico

Plays in: Mexico

Made by: Produzioni Intersound, Productora Filmica Real

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN), Spanish (ES)

Translated into 18 languages: Bulgarian (BG), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date DE: 01/31/1991 (World premiere: 11/24/1989)

Cast: Blanca Guerra, Adán Jodorowsky, Guy Stockwell, Axel Jodorowsky, Sergio Bustamante, Brontis Jodorowsky, Valérie Crouzet

Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky

Producer: Claudio Argento

Screenwriter: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Claudio Argento, Roberto Leoni

Film Editor: Mauro Bonanni

Director of Photography: Daniele Nannuzzi

Composer: Simon Boswell

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"산타 상그레"

"성스러운 피"

"Holy Blood"

Keywords: elephant, stage show, shrine, surreal, tattoed woman, funeral, madness, trauma, mexico city, mexico, circus, cult film, avant-garde, surrealism, gore, clown, suicide

Budget: 787,000 USD

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Santa Sangre(Movie, 1989)

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Trailer for Santa Sangre + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

Jodorosky's Santa Sangre - Original Theatrical Trailer | High-Def Digest(Trailer, 2:50)

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