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For many years, I did pantomime with Marcel Marceau. I was a writer for him and got to know very well how to use the body for illustration. I wanted to do a mother without arms, but using the arms of her son in Santa Sangre. The tragedy should always have something funny. Something weird.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

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Alejandro Jodorowsky
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: February 7
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