Endless Poetry(2016)
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.
Movie: Endless Poetry
Top 10 Billed Cast
Enrique Lihn
Alejandro as a child
Little Girl
Maria Lefevre, tarot reader
Alejandro / Andrés Racz
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