Home | Movies By Year | Movies from 1968
Ch OVNI
Buy Ch OVNI now from AmazonFirst, read the Wikipedia article. Then, scroll down to see what other TopShelfReviews readers thought about the movie. And once you've experienced the movie, tell everyone what you thought about it.
Wikipedia article
'Ch OVNI' is a 1968 Argentine science-fiction musical comedy film directed by Anbal Uset and starring Juan Carlos Altavista, Javier Portales, Jorge Sobral, and Marcela Lpez Rey.
Background
Ch OVNI was only the second space film to be made in Argentina, after 'El Satelite Chiflado' (The Crazy Satellite). The film is about alien invaders who abduct a tango-singer. OVNI means "UFO"; a newspaper article from the 'Cine Herald', July 17, 1968, depicted a cartoon Martian landing in the capital of Spain" a part of the promotion to the film.
Plot
An alien envoy arrives on Earth to kidnap a porteo tango singer and she is taken to planet where there is no live. She and other aliens of the planet wish to feel love again and the computers inform her that she is well-suited to trying to accomplish this, and results in a series of tango performances. The aliens fall in love with the tango singer Jorge (Jorge Sobral).
Principal cast
* Juan Carlos Altavista as Juan
* Javier Portales as Professor
* Jorge Sobral as Jorge
* Marcela Lpez Rey as Csmica
* Erika Wallner as Rubia
* Perla Caron as Amarilla
* Zelmar Gueo as Pierre
Reception
Shot on locations in London, Paris, Madrid and Buenos Aires, the film was considered "one of the most thunderous commercial failures" in Argentine film.
However, Augusto R. Giustozzi said that Jorge Sobral "excelled" in his role.
References
Buy Ch OVNI now from Amazon
<-- Return to movies from 1968