La Fiebre del Loco

La Fiebre del Loco[1] (The Abalone Fever in Spanish) is a 2001 Chilean comedy directed by Andres Wood.

La Fiebre del Loco
Chilean theatrical release poster
Directed byAndrés Wood
Written byRené Arcos
Gilberto Villaroel
StarringEmilio Bardi
Luis Dubó
Release date
  • October 2001 (2001-10)
Running time
94 minutes
CountryChile
LanguageSpanish

Plot

The film is about infighting between visiting prostitutes and fishermen's wives in a small fishing village in rural Southern Chile that has become greedy and crazy for Chilean abalone.[2][3] In Spanish the word loco has the dual meaning of Chilean abalone and crazy. The film's tagline was "Amor y avaricia en un mundo de buzos y moluscos" (Spanish for: Love and greed in a world of scuba and mollusks). The film's title in German was Das Loco-Fieber and English Loco Fever. In the film all hell breaks loose when the Chilean government temporarily lifts the ban on the collection of the Chilean abalone, a mollusk with aphrodisiacal effects.[4]

Cast
  • Emilio Bardi - Canuto
  • Luis Dubó - Jorge
  • Loreto Moyo - Sonia
  • Luis Margani - Padre Luis (Father Luis)
  • Tamara Acosta - Nelly
  • María Izquierdo - Leila
  • Mariana Loyola - Paty
  • Patricia López (credited as Patricia López Menadier) - Isabel
  • Carmina Riego
  • Pilar Zderich - Denisse
  • Aldo Parodi
  • Julio Marcone - Yukio
  • Cristián Chaparro
  • Gabriela Medina
  • Carmen Barros
  • Marcela Arroyave
  • Claudia Hidalgo
  • Chamila Rodríguez
  • Pablo Striano
  • Camila Videla

Technical information

Realization and demonstration, on October 29, 2001, of the first digital cinema transmission by satellite in Europe[5][6][7] of a feature film (La Fiebre del Loco) by Bernard Pauchon,[8] Alain Lorentz, Raymond Melwig[9] and Philippe Binant.[10]

References
  1. La Fiebre del Loco
  2. (in Spanish)Muestra 'locuras' chilenas, access date August 9, 2008
  3. Fiebre del loco, La, Internet Movie Database, access date August 9, 2008
  4. VENICE FILM FESTIVAL : A New Wave:Movies Without Borders, by Roderick Conway Morris, International Herald Tribune, August 29, 2002, access date August 9, 2008
  5. France Télécom, Commission Supérieure Technique de l'Image et du Son, Communiqué de presse, Paris, October 29th, 2001.
  6. «Numérique : le cinéma en mutation», Projections, 13, CNC, Paris, September 2004, p. 7.
  7. Olivier Bomsel, Gilles Le Blanc, Dernier tango argentique. Le cinéma face à la numérisation, Ecole des Mines de Paris, 2002, p. 12.
  8. Bernard Pauchon, France Telecom and digital cinema, ShowEast, 2001, p. 10.
  9. Alexandru Georgescu (et al.), Critical Space Infrastructures. Risk, Resilience and Complexity, Springer, 2019, p. 48.
  10. Première numérique pour le cinéma français, 01net, 2002.
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