The film revolves around an insane man, who is forced by his mother to kill people. SEE DETAILS. But the story was his and Leoni was a thief! After his [cult film] The Holy Mountain of 1974, Jodorowsky was asked to direct a film version of Frank Herbert’s epic 1965 science fiction novel Dune but the project had collapsed, and except for the children’s fable Tusk in 1980 he seemed to have disappeared from the international scene. Raya and the Last Dragon. Concha then laughs in his face and Orgo cuts off his wife's arms which land amongst a bunch of chickens which peck at them. ', Please expand the article to include this information. Fenix then spots the Tattooed Woman, who is now a prostitute, and becomes consumed with rage. Sus flores pueden ser de color fucsia brillante, morado intenso, bermellón o blanco. [4] She insists to the Catholic Monsignor that the red pool in the centre of their church is “santa sangre” (holy blood), but he says that it’s just red paint. Alma proceeds to lead Fenix outside the house where police are waiting and order them to put up their hands. Further details may exist on the, Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival, "SANTA SANGRE - Roberto Leoni Movie Reviews [Eng sub]", "Santa Sangre [1990] [DVD]: Amazon.co.uk: Axel Jodorowsky, Blanca Guerra, Guy Stockwell, Thelma Tixou, Sabrina Dennison, Adan Jodorowsky, Faviola Elenka Tapia, Teo Jodorowsky, María de Jesús Aranzabal, Jesús Juárez, Sergio Bustamante, Gloria Contreras, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Angelo Iacono, Anuar Badin, Claudio Argento, René Cardona Jr., Roberto Leoni: Film & TV", "Santa Sangre [Blu-ray]: Guy Stockwell, Blanca Guerra, Axel Jodorowsky, Alejandro Jodorowsky: Movies & TV", "Mexico's Premier Horror Event Morbido Fest Readies Twelfth Edition", "Empire's 500 Greatest Movies of All Time", "Santa Sangre, influencias del giallo en México", "22ED. Fenix's mother is Concha, a trapeze artist and leader of the religious cult Santa Sangre. His mother, Concha, is a religous fanatic who is the acolyte of a temple devoted to a saint that has not yet been recognized by the Roman Catholic Church, St. Lirio. I trusted his blue eyes, I trusted him his sincere way of telling me "I love you". And I trusted. Bougainvillea (Bugambilia, Buganvilia, Trinitaria, Verania o Santa Rita): Esta enredadera tropical florece en la mitad meridional de la Florida y resplandece de color casi todo el año, particularmente en invierno y primavera. [8] In Italy, from 25 to 27 November 2019,[9] the Videa film society celebrated the 30th anniversary by screening the 4K restored version at select theatres. It’s a four-hour sprawling epic that is somehow, through some kind of time warp, only two hours long. Concha - Arm chopped off by Orgo. When he was a child, Fenix was a magician for a circus. Unterdessen lernt Fenix das taubstumme Santa Sangre ha ricevuto recensioni prevalentemente positive, con una recensione del British Film 4 che lo descrive come "Uno dei film più belli di Jodorowsky" che "risuona con tutto il potere inquietante di un incubo viscido filtrato attraverso la lente allucinatoria psichedelica degli anni '60" Roger Ebert ha dato una recensione positiva al film e ha affermato di ritenere che contenesse un messaggio morale … ... His mother, Concha (Blanca Guerra), is an aerialist with the troupe and a religious zealot who presides over the Church of Santa Lirio. Concha is the leader of a religious cult that worships an uncanonised saint – a girl whose arms were cut off by rapists – whose church is about to be demolished. As they both comply, Fenix watches his own hands in awe as he does so. My hands. The church featured a pool of blood of “santa sangre” or Holy blood. The mother (Concha) has her own cult (Santa Sangra) and can be classified as a religious zealot, or an extremist of some kind. "[3], Though a Mexican and Italian co-production, Santa Sangre is in English, with the dubbed audio and slightly off lip movements only adding to the film's ensnaring eeriness and unsettling aura. Per Fenix l'unico affetto è Alma una coetanea sordomuta, finchè un evento tragico non sconvolgerà la sua vita e al sua mente allontanandolo dalla ragazza. He escapes from the asylum and meets up with his armless mother. To kill her.” It’s suddenly a slasher movie, not instead of all those things it was before, but in addition to them. [10], The film generally was critically well received, eventually being ranked 476th on Empire magazine's 2008 list of the 500 greatest movies of all time. Concha - Arm chopped off by Orgo. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. His mother, Concha, is the queen of the flying trapeze as well as a devotee of the Santa Sangre Church, where she and her followers worship a girl whose arms were cut off by rapists. There isn’t any magic – even out-there stuff like the elephant funeral is basically within the bounds of possibility – but the stylisation, the mingling of circus and carnival imagery with Catholic iconography, imbues the world with magic anyway. Back in the present, Fenix is taken out of the asylum to a movie theater along with other patients, most of whom have Down syndrome. Concha picks up a jar of acid and throws it onto Orgo's crotch. Kendi inançlarını özgürce yaşayamayan, kimseye zararı dokunmadan ayin yapan bu topluluğun karşısına dikilen tekelci bir din ve devlet anlayışı ise meşrutiyetini sorgulatmaya başlamıştır. Concha's mutilation is a cruel irony: She is the leader of a cult of women who worship a saint whose arms were cut off by rapists. Santa Sangre Synopsis. We flash back to Fenix's childhood, which he spent performing as a "child magician" in a circus run by his father Orgo, the knife-thrower, and his mother Concha, a trapeze artist and aerialist. When Concha learned that Orgo was having an affair with the bawdy tattooed women he hurled his knives at, she responded with jealous rage and doused their genitals with corrosive acid, prompting Orgo to cut off Concha's arms before committing suicide. Later on, Concha, during her trapeze act, sees Orgo and the tattooed woman sneak out of the big top. https://thesundae.net/2020/12/06/you-should-watch-santa-sangre ( Log Out /  H ere is Jodorowsky's superbly bizarre Santa Sangre, or sacred blood, from 1989. Santa Sangre est un film italo-mexicain réalisé par Alejandro Jodorowsky, sorti en 1989, qui raconte la vie de Fenix, un jeune homme atteint de stress post-traumatique, qui est né dans l'univers du cirque. Orgo cheats on Concha with a tattooed lady: the woman he throws knives at as part of his sexualised routine. [11] Jodorowsky has one of the most interesting lead sections in the history of Wikipedia, which states that he “has worked as a novelist, screenwriter, a poet, a playwright, an essayist, a film and theater director and producer, an actor, a film editor, a comics writer, a musician and composer, a philosopher, a puppeteer, a mime, a psychologist and psychoanalyst, a draughtsman, a painter, a sculptor, and a spiritual guru.” In 1970, he directed the acid western El Topo, which became a cult hit on the back of support from John Lennon, who convinced Allen Klein to distribute the film in the United States. Their church contains a pool of blood, no doubt suggesting menstrual fluid (Concha's name is Mexican slang for the vagina); its … RELATED: Strange Beauty: Chavela Vargas. It would be easy to imagine Santa Sangre being a bit creaky, to feel like it was made while its director got back into his rhythms. Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Santa Sangre is the kind of film that makes you fall in love with cinema. The church featured a pool of blood of “santa sangre” or Holy blood. Sein Vater Orgo ist ein rabiater Amerikaner, der sich gerne dem Alkohol hingibt, seine Mutter Concha arbeitet als Trapezkünstlerin und ist fanatische Führerin der Glaubensgemeinschaft zum Heiligen Blut (Santa Sangre). A young man -- starving, nearly catatonic and barely responsive -- is confined in a sanitarium. Combining elements at once beautiful, grotesque and erotic, SANTA SANGRE is something akin to Fellini remaking both PSYCHO and NIGHTMARE ALLEY as one single, glorious fever dream of a thriller. It feels like a fairytale: something old and strange and by turns sweet and dark. In fact, Fenix the character that Leoni created together with Jodorowsky is a serial killer, but "…every time he kills you feel sorry for him, that is you are sorry more for him than for the victim. Tom & Jerry (2021) Nomadland. The Tattooed Woman is shown trying to prostitute Alma, who runs away and sleeps on the roof of a truck. A reviewer from the British Film 4 describing the film as "one of Jodorowsky’s finest films" which "resonates with all the disturbing power of a clammy nightmare filtered through the hallucinatory lens of 1960s psychedelia. 1 Victims 2 Deaths 3 Kill Count 4 Notes Elephant - Died from a sickness. Ebert described it as "a horror film, one of the greatest, and after waiting patiently through countless Dead Teenager Movies, I am reminded by Alejandro Jodorowsky that true psychic horror is possible on the screen – horror, poetry, surrealism, psychological pain, and wicked humor, all at once. The devotees of this sect (who incidently are all, or maybe mostly, women) wear a red robe with two white x's on the chest. Concha is the leader of a religious cult that worships an uncanonised saint – a girl whose arms were cut off by rapists – whose church is about to be demolished. [11], As of October 2020[update], the film had an 86% rating on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes based on 42 reviews, with a weighted average of 7.38/10. There, he encounters by chance a woman from his past, triggering a series of flashbacks. He is taken on a field trip along with other residents to the city's red-light district. New + Coming soon. It is Fenix's mother, Concha, who first exacts vengeance upon her philandering husband, just as Fenix himself is enlisted to help his mother, later in life, settle a few more old scores -- or so it seems. When we meet him again as an adult, he lives in a mental asylum, seemingly having had a psychotic break. [5] Regardless, Santa Sangre did not receive a wide release in the U.S., only screening at a few theaters familiar with Jodorowsky's previous work. In Santa Sangre, Fenix at one point becomes so obsessed with his armless mother that she controls both his mind and body, under her spell, he enters trance-like states, slaughtering countless young women at Concha’s demand. An archbishop declares Concha's church to be heretical, and a developer's bulldozers wipe it out. And Fenix's realization that he has finally regained control of them brings him joy and peace. By the time Jodorowsky made Santa Sangre in 1989, he hadn’t directed a film in eight years, and that film – children’s fable Tusk, never given a wide release – had been his first film since The Holy Mountain in 1973. Immer wieder ergreift Concha von ihrem Sohn Besitz und lässt ihn Morde an verschiedenen Frauen begehen, die sie als Konkurrenz empfindet. He watches helplessly, locked inside the family’s trailer, banging against the windows. [7] On Halloween 2019, Morbido Fest, a Mexico City-based festival, held a celebratory 30th anniversary screening of Santa Sangre; remastered in 4K by Severin Films from a scan of the original camera negative. When their arms are severed, they are literally marked bodies. Santa Sangre Concha (1989) The Realm of Fortune La Caponera (1986) Pedro Páramo Dolores Preciado (1977) Orgo carries on a very public flirtation with the tattooed woman, and their knife-throwing act is heavily sexualized. She attacks Orgo and the tattooed lady, throwing acid on Orgo’s genitals. Orgo - Penis melted off with acid, suicide by slitting his throat. The film starts with a naked figure sitting in a tree in what looks like a mental asylum. He destroys the home-made temple and throws away the mannequin with the help of his imaginary childhood friends, Aladin and the clowns. Alma finds Fenix and together they plan to run away from Concha and her house. It stars Axel Jodorowsky, Adán Jodorowsky, Teo Jodorowsky, Blanca Guerra, Thelma Tixou, and Guy Stockwell. when you spend $25 on participating products. In one scene, he perches naked on a branch, while doctors offer him food – one normal meal and one whole raw fish – and he screams wordlessly at the meal and chooses the raw fish. Fenix, played by two of Jodorowsky’s sons (Adán as a child, Axel as an adult), is a boy magician raised in the circus. ( Log Out /  As the nurses get him to put on some overalls, the viewer sees that he has a tattoo of a phoenix on his chest. She tries to force Fenix to murder Alma as well, but, after a struggle, he manages to plunge a knife into Concha's stomach. His father Orgo is a knife thrower and his mother Concha is an acrobat, while Alma, a deaf-mute girl who is a mime and tightrope walker, is the object of his affections. The sect worships as its patron saint a young girl who was attacked and raped by a group of men who severed both her arms and left her to die in a pool of her own blood. Argento appreciated the story and added to it, and with Leoni, they decided to present it to the director who seemed to them the most suited to the material, Alejandro Jodorowsky. ( Log Out /  Claudio Argento located him and talked to his agent. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. Su mayor éxito es «El que más te ha querido» en la voz de Dyango.Fue nominado para el Grammy y primer lugar en los Estados Unidos. She chases after them and, seeing them sexually engaged, pours a bottle of sulphuric acid onto Orgo's genitals. The library was very extensive because there were five very huge rooms for the 50,000 volumes and it was me and him alone, isolated on a high floor of this immense palace. "Santa Sangre: Just bloody awesome!" The site's consensus stated: "Those unfamiliar with Alejandro Jodorowsky's style may find it overwhelming, but Santa Sangre is a provocative psychedelic journey featuring the director's signature touches of violence, vulgarity, and an oddly personal moral center. Está considerada como la compositora más atrevida del bolero contemporáneo. Fenix becomes Concha’s missing arms: allowing his own arms to take the place of hers both in elaborate dance routines on the vaudeville circuit and in everyday domestic tasks. Even though it’s almost exactly two hours, it feels longer – not because it’s dull or slow, but because it’s so full to bursting with different styles, genres and stories that it seems impossible that it could all fit inside a two-hour movie. Their church is about to be bulldozed at the behest of the owner of the land, and the followers make one last stand against the police and the bulldozers. He cuts both of her arms off, just like her saint, and then kills himself. But Concha soon starts to use her son's hands to kill those women whom she deems a threat to her, including a young performer that he kills with a knife-throw, as well as a cross-dressing wrestler, whom he slashes with a Japanese katana sword. Suddenly the film is, however briefly, basically One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest. The film revolves around an insane man, who is forced by his mother to kill people. La madre Concha è una fanatica religiosa che venera l'immagione di una Santa senza braccia. 1 Victims 2 Deaths 3 Kill Count 4 Notes Elephant - Died from a sickness. He then walks into the street and slits his own throat. Santa Sangre (deutsch: Heiliges Blut) ... Auch lässt sie ihn einen Schrein für die Heilige von Santa Sangre bauen. "[13], Santa Sangre ranks 476th on Empire magazine's 2008 list of the 500 greatest movies of all time. With Axel Jodorowsky, Blanca Guerra, Guy Stockwell, Thelma Tixou. His father Orgo was a large, brutish knife thrower, and his mother, Concha, was a trapeze artist who also led a church dedicated to a girl who died after her arms were cut off. when you purchase an Edible Movie Night Gift Box. He is taken on a field trip along with other residents to the city's red-light district. As they try to coax him off of his perch, it is the fish that persuades him to come down. But it’s not only a confident production, it’s audacious. Receive a $10 Reward. Follow on twitter @_ciaramoloney Concha is triggered when she sees her husband having sex with another woman, and her idol, Santa Sangre, had been raped by two men in the street. After seeing the tattooed lady by chance, Fenix’s memories return. View all posts by Ciara Moloney. But it seems, to me, more like a celebratory participant in exactly the kind of gory slashers that Ebert reviled: twisting them up with Buñuel and Chaplin and Fellini and Hitchcock in Jodorowsky’s mad cinematic tapestry. The circus crew also includes, among others, a tattooed woman, who acts as the object of Orgo's knife-throwing feats, her adopted daughter Alma (a hearing-impaired, voiceless mime and tightrope walker whom Fenix adores, with the feeling mutual), Fenix's dwarf friend Aladin, a pack of clowns and a small elephant. Concha'nın bütün inancı, kutsallığa bakışı, dine olan saygısı da Santa Sangre ile birlikte yıkılır. Santa Sangre: Concha: Offers. Receive a Movie Rental. Fenix sees it all. The Tattooed Woman is killed and mutilated by the hands of an unseen woman. Santa Sangre (Holy Blood) is a 1989 film by Alejandro Jodorowsky.. Fenix leads Concha back to the circus, where she finds out about Orgo's affair, but Orgo, being also a hypnotist, puts Concha in a trance and rapes her. De Jesus Aranzabal as Fat Prostitute (Lores), This page was last edited on 22 March 2021, at 17:20. Through a quick series of flashbacks, it is revealed that Concha actually died after being maimed by Orgo, and that Fenix has actually kept a mannequin of his armless mother for performing on stage and at home, which also now appears in reality to be a thoroughly dilapidated house. His father Orgo was a large, brutish knife thrower, and his mother, Concha, was a trapeze artist who also led a church dedicated to a girl who died after her arms were cut off. 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A church that worships a young woman whose arms were cut off after she was raped. We spend a good forty minutes or so with Fenix as a child at the circus. An international co-production of Mexico and Italy, the film is set in Mexico, and tells the story of Fenix, a boy who grew up in a circus and his struggle with childhood trauma. The mother (Concha) has her own cult (Santa Sangra) and can be classified as a religious zealot, or an extremist of some kind. Concha is also the leader of a religious cult that considers, as its patron saint, a little girl who was raped and had her arms cut off by two brothers. It’s Charlie Chaplin’s The Circus and Luis Buñuel’s surrealist films and Hitchcock’s Psycho, featuring a very moving elephant funeral and a bunch of guys with Down’s syndrome doing cocaine, all shot in gorgeously rich, bold colours. A pimp intercepts them and persuades them to take cocaine and follow him to meet an overweight prostitute. ( Log Out /  It has a taste for gore that feels rooted both in Italian giallo films and American horror films from the 1980s. Jodorowsky agreed to a meeting in Paris, but he wanted to meet only Leoni because he wanted to meet who wrote the story. Santa Sangre is about a son (Fenix) who has a very intense, and interesting relationship with his parents. Here is where we see the shift into out-and-out horror. Fenix submits his will to Concha’s so thoroughly that his arms move with a spooky synchronicity, like she has more control over them than he does. The dialogue is sparse enough that it feels like a silent film. A developer’s bulldozers destroy the church after the local cardinal declares it a sham and a heresy. Eines Tages wird ihre Kirche von Bulldozern dem Erdboden gleichgemacht, nachdem ein Monsignore die Anbetung einer armlosen Heiligen für ketzerisch befunden hat. "[12], Roger Ebert said that he believed it carried the moral message of genuinely opposing evil, rather than celebrating it like most contemporary horror films. It’s both, at a technical level, very beautiful – the kind of bone-deep satisfaction you get from Gene Kelly tap dancing on roller skates – and extremely creepy. The film starts with a naked figure sitting in a tree in what looks like a mental asylum. [15], Santa Sangre is considered a cult movie and the restored print of the film was screened in 2008 Cannes Classics[22], It was also screened during Locarno Film Festival in 2019[23], 'One of these patients, who worked with me because he knew 3 or 4 languages so he could help me sort the books, because the library had 50,000 volumes of all types and ages, one day started looking sideways and saying: "...shut up... shut up..." The third time I asked him what happened and he answered me calmly with his calm blue eyes: "No, nothing, I have a voice that tells me to kill you, but don't worry because I love you." Concha Valdés Miranda (La Habana, 16 de julio de 1928-Miami, Florida, Estados Unidos de América; 19 de agosto de 2017) [1] fue una compositora e intérprete de música cubana. Fenix witnesses this, locked inside a trailer. Via Fandor . To call "Santa Sangre" (1989) a horror film would be unjust to a film that exists outside all categories. Nurses come out to him, bringing a plate of conventional food and also one of a raw fish. Orgo's wife is Concha (Blanca Guerra), a fiery priestess of a cultish religious order worshipping Santa Sangre, a schoolgirl martyred in a rape in which both her arms were cut off. He then sees the tattooed woman driving off with Alma. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Santa Sangre is a 1989 Mexican experimental giallo film directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky. This tattoo, Orgo says, will make Fenix a man. SEE DETAILS. Santa Sangre est un film méconnu du grand public qui contient de multiples caractéristiques qui en font un film à part dans le septième art [réf. Mother and son go on to perform an act whereby he stands behind her and moves his arms so that they appear to be Concha's arms that are moving. But mostly, it fizzles with an unlimited imagination, as the whole film does – generating beautiful and grotesque images that cut right to the core in ways that can’t be articulated. ... Santa Sangre really gives voice to my own personal lifetime in hell and then re-demption. It is signed on Empire magazine's 2008 list of the 500 Greatest Movies of All Time. In his anger and pain, Orgo tacks Concha onto the knife throwing target and slices off her arms--just like the martyr for Santa Sangre. When Concha learned that Orgo was having an affair with the bawdy tattooed women he hurled his knives at, she responded with jealous rage and doused their genitals with corrosive acid, prompting Orgo to cut off Concha's arms before committing suicide. A Roman Catholic Monsignor drives into the conflict, saying that he will prevent its demolition, but after he enters the temple to inspect it he deems it blasphemous and unworthy (the girl worshipped is no saint, he says, and the supposed pool of "holy blood" at the center of the edifice contains just red paint), so the demolition is carried out. Fenix’s mother Concha heads a church called Santa Sangre whose martyr is a young girl who was raped, her arms cut off, and left to die in a pool of blood that has never dried. She insists to the Catholic Monsignor that the red pool in the centre of their church is “santa sangre” (holy blood), but he says that it’s just red paint. Spirituality, sex and violence intermingle over the course of Santa Sangre, with revenge being the engine which propels the film forward. As the nurses get him to put on some overalls, the viewer sees that he has a tattoo of a phoenix on his chest. In each case, Concha forces him to kill them. "[14], The film was screened at the V Muestra de Cine Mexicano en Guadalajara where several groups of people left the room during the screening. Santa Sangre is a 1989 Mexican experimental giallo film directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky. It’s cinema itself. Der Junge Fenix lebt mit seinen Eltern in einem Zirkus, wo er als „junger Zauberer“ auftritt. The sect worships as its patron saint a young girl who was attacked and raped by a group of men who severed both her arms and left her to die in a pool of her own blood. Leftist, sitcom enthusiast. An archbishop declares Concha's church to be heretical, and a developer's bulldozers wipe it out. It is, I suppose, a commentary on gender in the Catholic Church. Santa Sangre (Holy Blood) is a 1989 film by Alejandro Jodorowsky. It’s funny and gross and wonderful. I was a little uncomfortable, but he reassured me: "No, no, don't worry, I love you, I don't listen to it..." Continuing to stare at me with his blue eyes and I was, as far as I could be, calm. There, he encounters by chance a woman from his past, triggering a series of flashbacks. A dream sequence subsequently shows that he has killed many more women, all of whose memories haunt him. Back in the asylum, Fenix's armless mother Concha calls out for him from the street and he escapes by climbing down a rope from his cell window. Santa Sangre is a testament that no burden is above being liberated from, ... Concha was wrong when she said Fenix will never be free of her, but her declaration rang true to me in other ways. Nurses come out to him, bringing a plate of conventional food and also one of a raw fish. When Concha sees them together, suspended in the air by her ponytail, she demands to be lowered to the ground. In the United States, it was primarily rated NC-17 for "several scenes of extremely explicit violence". Klein funded Jodorowsky’s next film, The Holy Mountain, before they fell out over a potential adaptation of Story of O. The arrival of a Tattooed Woman and her protégée, the deaf-mute Alma, sparks a chain of jealousy and lust that culminates in gruesome death, all of it witnessed by Fenix firsthand. Santa Sangre (English: Holy Blood) is a 1989 avant-garde surreal horror film directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky and written by Jodorowsky along with Claudio Argento and Roberto Leoni. The circus elephant then dies, much to Fenix's grief, and a public funeral is conducted, in which the elephant is paraded through the city inside a giant casket. The casket is then dropped into the city dump, where scavengers open it up and proceed to carve up the elephant and take away the meat. When he was a child, Fenix was a magician for a circus. Chaos Walking. Orgo's wife is Concha (Blanca Guerra), a fiery priestess of a cultish religious order worshipping Santa Sangre, a schoolgirl martyred in a rape in which both her arms were cut off. Change ), Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window), Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window), Jean-Pierre Melville and Film Noir [Current Affairs], Talking Nonce Sense: In Praise of Paedogeddon, 2020 in Film(s That Didn’t Come Out in 2020). The Dance of Reality, the first film in 23 years by the iconic director Alejandro Jodorowsky ( El Topo, The Holy Mountain, Santa Sangre), was a family affair. Holy Mountain, before they fell out over a potential adaptation of story of o ’ take. 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