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The Holy Mountain · LeviOsa

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The Holy Mountain

DramaAdventure1h 46m

🍅85%

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85%

Tomatometer

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88%

Popcornmeter

6.5

TMDB

Storyline

In the mountains, Diotima meets Karl and fall in love and have an affair. Karl's friend Vigo mistakenly believes she's in love with him, causing rifts in all relationships.

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Details

DirectorsArnold Fanck, Leni Riefenstahl

ReleasedNov 1, 1926

StatusReleased

Original languageGerman

Budget

Not disclosed

Revenue

Not disclosed

Parental guideNot rated

Studios

UFABerg- und Sportfilm

Cast

Leni Riefenstahl

Leni Riefenstahl

Diotima

Luis Trenker

Luis Trenker

Karl

Ernst Petersen

Ernst Petersen

Vigo

Frida Richard

Frida Richard

Mother

Hannes Schneider

Hannes Schneider

Mountain Guide

Leontine Sagan

Leontine Sagan

Friedrich Schneider

Colli

Reviews

8 reviews · 7 critics

7 fresh · 0 rotten

Critics consensus

“A visual treat rich in symbolism, The Holy Mountain adds another defiantly idiosyncratic chapter to Jodorowsky's thoroughly unique filmography.”

85% TomatometerRotten Tomatoes

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Peter Bradshaw

RTGuardianJan 24, 2020

Hardly a moment passes in this movie without a situationist display of outrageousness; it is a dream tableau of the weird and occasionally wonderful.

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Nick Schager

RTLessons of DarknessJun 8, 2011

A rambling stream-of-consciousness quest that - in its final, self-conscious act - celebrates the primacy of the filmed image.

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David Fear

RTTime OutApr 21, 2007

Not even Buuel with a brainful of Woodstock's bad brown acid could have made something this gloriously screwy.

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Eddie Harrison

RTfilm-authority.comApr 20, 2026

‘…Alejandro Jodorowsky's The Holy Mountain is a cruel, brutal, ethereal masterpiece…a monument to a certain kind of experimental, creative film-making that’s likely to die with its estimable creator…

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Information

Title

The Holy Mountain

Released

Nov 1, 1926

Rated

Not rated

Region of Origin

Germany

Original Audio

German

Runtime

1h 46m

Status

Released

Studios

UFA, Berg- und Sportfilm

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