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Santa sangre (1989)
Country of Origin:
Mexico / Italy
Year of Production: 1989
Running Times: 120 mins (US R-rated version) 123 mins
Length: 3264 metres
Format: colour 35mm
Ratio:
Sound: Dolby
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Productora Fílmica Real / Produzioni
Intersound
Executive Producers: René
Cardona Jr, Angelo Jacono
Producer: Claudio Argento
Line Producer: Anuar Badin
Production Supervisor: Roberta Tinti
Unit Manager: Pablo Buelna
Production Manager: Luz María Rojas
Production Coordinator: Cesar Armando Jiminez
SCRIPT
Script: Claudio Argento, Alejandro
Jodorowsky, Roberto Leoni
DIRECTION
Director: Alejandro
Jodorowsky
1st Assistant Director: Jesús Martín Bello
2nd Assistant Director: René Villarreal
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Daniele Nannuzzi
Camera Operator: Santiago Navarrete
Assistant Camera: Isidoro Rosas, Pablo Ríos
Lighting Designer: Marcello Gabriele
Gaffer: Juvenal Herrera Domínguez
Key Grip: Juan Luna Gómez
Dolly Grips: Ernesto Serrano Garcia, Salvador Serrano Perez
Stills: Enrique Fernandez Rubalcana
Equipment Supervisor: Antonio Hernández
Lab: Luciano Vittori, Roma, Italy
EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Mauro Bonanni
Assistant Editors: Massimo Quaglia, Stefano Quaglia
Post Production Manager: Lillo Capoano
MUSIC
Music: Simon Boswell
Songs: Dámaso Pérez Prado (Caballo negro; Lupita; Mambo
n. 8); Tomás Méndez (Cucurrucucu paloma); Enrique Mora
(Alejandra); Luis Martínez Serrano (Donde estas corazon); Alfonso
Esparza Oteo (Dejame llorar); Genaro Codina (Marcha zacatecas); Consuelo
Velázquez (Besame mucho); Esperón and Cortázar
(No volvere); Luis Magaña (Las bicicletas; Marcha funebre);
Alonso Jiménez (De este lado de aca)
Music Producer: Vincent Messina
Music Consultant: Ernesto Cortázar
SOUND
Sound Mixer: Roberto Camacho
Boom Operator: Victor Camacho Falcon
Cable Person: Heriberto Cardenas Sr
Re-Recording Mixer: Romano Checcacci
Sound Re-Recording: Fonorama Film
ADR Editor: Nick Alexander
Additional Sound Effects: Luciano Anzellotti, Massimo Anzellotti
Dolby Stereo Sound Consultant: Federico Savina
MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up Supervisor: Lamberto Marini
Make Up: Alberto Lopez Rodriguez
Assistant Make Up: Raul Sarmiento Pina
Hair: Silvia Fernandez
Wig Supervisor: Francisco Jaramillo
Tattoo Designer: Sergio Arau
Costume Designer: Tolita Figueroa
Assistant Costume Designer: Catalina Nancey
Wardrobe Supervisor: Horacio Martínez
Wardrobe Master: Ignacio Abel Melo
Seamstress: María Luisa Esquibel Bernal SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects Supervisor: Marcelino Pacheco Guzmán
Special Effects: Victor M. Cano Castro, Rubén Pacheco García,
Alfonso Pacheco García
VISUAL EFFECTS
Titles and Opticals: Penta Studio
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Alejandro Luna
Assistant Set Designer: Fernando Ramírez Romero
Set Decorator: Enrique Estevez Labastida
Assistant Set Decorators: José Chairez Juárez, Manuel
Ordaz López, Raúl Ramírez Romero
Property Master: Alfonso Godinez Trejo
MISCELLANEOUS
Script Supervisor: Gabriela Gurrola
Production Accountants: Carla Menicocci, Ramón Vásquez
Production Consultants: Lars Bloch, Ronald De Neef
Production Secretaries: Ma. Teresa Romero, Miguel Ángel Garrido,
Silvia Vitri, Victoria Chávez, Vinicio Cisneros
Transportation Coordinator: Salvador Gutiérrez
Dialogue Supervisor: Robert Teicher
Dialogue Coach: Jacques Wilson
Actors Delegates: Gustavo Maynes, Isaac Moreno
Animal Wranglers: Humberto Gurza, Miguel Gurza
Unit Publicist: Greg Day
Press Agent: Óscar Lancer
Press Office: Zakiya and Associates
LOCATIONS
Studio: Estudios Churubusco Azteca, Mexico
Location Facilities: Productora Fílmica Real CASTING
Casting: Pablo Leder
Casting Assistants: Deborah Shapiro, Germán Nava
CAST
Axel Jodorowsky (Fenix)
Blanca Guerra (Concha)
Guy Stockwell (Orgo)
Thelma Tixou (the tattooed woman)
Sabrina Dennison (Alma)
Adan Jodorowsky (young Fenix)
Faviola Elenka Tapia (young Alma)
Teo Jodorowsky (pimp)
María de Jesús Aranzabal (fat prostitute)
Jesús Juárez (Aladin)
Sergio Bustamante (Monsignor)
Gloria Contreras (Rubi)
S. Rodriguez (the saint)
Zonia Rangel Mora (Trial)
Joaquín García Vargas (box-office attendant)
Teo Tapia (businessman)
Edgar E. Jiménez Nava (Monsignor's chauffeur)
Jacob Lieberman (Monsignor's secretary)
Héctor Ortega Gómez (doctor)
Brontis Jodorowsky (orderly 1)
Valérie Crouzet (orderly 2)
Óscar Serafín Álvarez (soldier 1)
Billy Motton (soldier 2)
Hilario 'Popitekus' Vargas (wrestler 1)
Guadalupe 'TNT' Aguilar (wrestler 2)
Arturo 'Rinoceronte' Contreras (wrestler 3)
Gustavo Aguilar Tejada, Roger Fayard Arroyo (beggars)
PLOT SUMMARY
While incarcerated in a psychiatric hospital,
Fenix recalls his traumatic childhood, raised in a circus by his religious
fanatic father who severed his mother's arms and committed suicide
in a fit of religious fervour. The adult Fenix escapes the hospital
and is reunited with his mother, becoming her arms to help her gain
a terrible revenge against the world.
CAPSULE REVIEW
Jodorowsky's most consistently beautiful, moving and shocking
film, Santa Sangre is a deeply unsettling experience, but also a rewarding
one, full of symbolism and hidden meaning that can only be teased
out through repeated viewings. Jodorowsky's haunting visuals
stay with you long after the film has finished in a way that few of
his other films do. Very highly recommended.
AVAILABILITY
Italy
Video Distributor: DomoVideo
Japan
Video Distributors: Amuse Soft Hanbai Inc; Nippon Columbia Co Ltd
Laserdisc: Amuse Soft Hanbai Inc
UK
Theatrical Distributor: Mainline Pictures
Video Distributor: Palace Video
USA
Theatrical Distributors: Expanded Entertainment; Haxan Films; Republic
Pictures Corporation
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
Australia
Rating: R
France
Rating: -16
Germany
Rating: 18
Sweden
Rating: 15
UK
Rating: 18
USA
Rating: R; NC-17 (1991 re-rating)
AWARDS
1991
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films, USA
Saturn Award Best Performance by a Younger Actor (Adan Jodorowsky)
- winner
TIMELINE
1989
May
Day Unknown: France – shown at the Cannes Film Festival
November
24: Italy – theatrical release
1990
March
30: USA – theatrical release in Los Angeles, California
May
31: Mexico – theatrical release
June
27: USA – wider theatrical release
1991
January
31: Germany – theatrical release
March
29: Sweden – theatrical release
June
28: Spain – theatrical release
March
31: France – theatrical release
LINKS
INCLUDES FOOTAGE FROM
The Invisible Man (1933)
REFERENCES
MAGAZINES
Cinefantastique vol.20 no.1/2 (November 1989) pp.34-37
(USA)
illustrated article
City Limits no.445 (12 April 1990) p.33 (UK)
illustrated review
Empire no.11 (May 1990) p.66 (UK)
illustrated review
Film Francais no.2244 / 2245 (5 May 1989) pp.59, 62
(France)
credits
Films and Filming no.410 (November / December 1988)
p.4 (UK)
review
Films and Filming no.425 (March 1990) pp.50, 51 (UK)
illustrated credits, review
Forced Exposure no.17 (UK)
interview (Wrapped In Salamander Cloth, He Played House: An Interview
With Film Director Alejandro Jodorowsky by Stefan Jaworzyn and Stephen
Thrower)
Foreign Sales, Italian Movie Trade January 1984 p.2
(Italy)
note
Foreign Sales, Italian Movie Trade October / November
1988 pp.18, 62 (Italy)
production notes, credits
Foreign Sales, Italian Movie Trade April / May 1989
p.37 (Italy)
production notes
Foreign Sales, Italian Movie Trade December 1989 p.8
(Italy)
credits, synopsis
Monthly Film Bulletin vol.57 no.675 (April 1990) pp.117-118
(UK)
illustrated credits, synopsis, review
Revue du Cinéma / Image et Son no.451 (July
/ August 1989) p.25 (France)
review
Starburst no.132 (August 1989) pp.20-21 (UK)
interview
Starburst no.139 (March 1990) pp.21-22 (UK)
illustrated review
Time Out no.1025 (11 April 1990) p.32 (UK)
illustrated review
Variety 31 May 1989 pp.28-29 (USA)
review
NEWSPAPERS
Svenska Dagbladet 30 March 1991 (Sweden)
review (Mycket blod men lite handling by Hans Schiller)
BOOKS
Midnight Movies (New York: Da Capo Press (1983))
review (by J. Hoberman and Jonathan Rosenbaum)
KEYWORDS
amputation, amputees, animals, circuses,deaf mutes, elephants, knife throwers,
mimes, religion, revenge, surrealism, tattoos
Last Updated:
1 January, 2009
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