El Topo DVD – Paula Romo , David Silva

The gunfighter El Topo (‘The Mole’) and his young son ride through a desert to a village whose inhabitants have been massacred. Bandits are nearby torturing and killing the survivors. El Topo rescues a woman (Mara) who leads him on a mission to find and defeat the four master gunmen of the desert. Leaving his son with a group of monks El Topo and Mara complete the mission accompanied by a mysterious woman in black. The women leave El Topo wounded in the desert where he is found by a clan of deformed people who take him to the remote cavern where they live. Awakening years later he goes with a dwarf woman to a nearby town promising to dig a tunnel through which the cave-dwellers can escape. They find the town run by a vicious sheriff and home to a bizarre religious cult. El Topo’s son now a man is a monk in the town. The completion of the tunnel leads El Topo the townspeople and the cave-dwellers to a bloody and tragic end.