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La Fiebre del Loco
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Wikipedia article
'La Fiebre del Loco'[http://www.01net.com/article/181540.html La Fiebre del Loco] (The 'Abalone' Fever in Spanish) is a 2001 Chilean comedy directed by Andres Wood.
Plot
The film revolves around conflicts 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.[http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-2651334_ITM Muestra 'locuras' chilenas], access date August 9, 2008[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0299876/ Fiebre del loco, La], Internet Movie Database, access date August 9, 2008 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.[http://www.iht.com/articles/2001/08/29/rod_ed2_.php VENICE FILM FESTIVAL : A New Wave:Movies Without Borders], by Roderick Conway Morris, 'International Herald Tribune', August 29, 2002, access date August 9, 2008
Cast
*Emilio Bardi - Canuto
*Luis Dub - Jorge
*Loreto Moyo - Sonia
*Luis Margani - Padre Luis (Father Luis)
*Tamara Acosta - Nelly
*Mara Izquierdo - Leila
*Mariana Loyola - Paty
*Patricia Lpez (credited as Patricia Lpez Menadier) - Isabel
*Carmina Riego
*Pilar Zderich - Denisse
*Aldo Parodi
*Julio Marcone - Yukio
*Cristin Chaparro
*Gabriela Medina
*Carmen Barros
*Marcela Arroyave
*Claudia Hidalgo
*Chamila Rodrguez
*Pablo Striano
*Camila Videla
Technical information
Realization and demonstration, on October 29, 2001, of the first digital cinema transmission by satellite in EuropeFrance Tlcom, Commission Suprieure Technique de l'Image et du Son, 'Communiqu de presse', Paris, October 29th, 2001.[http://www.passeursdimages.fr/IMG/pdf/projections13.pdf Numrique : le cinma en mutation, 'Projections', '13', CNC, Paris, September 2004, p. 7.][https://books.google.com/books?id=JhLwPrW8pggC&printsec=frontcover&dq=olivier+bomsel+mines&hl=fr&sa=X&ei=hKGhUqllpOzSBdulgcgL&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=olivier%20bomsel%20mines&f=false Olivier Bomsel, Gilles Le Blanc, 'Dernier tango argentique. Le cinma face la numrisation', Ecole des Mines de Paris, 2002, p. 12.] of a feature film ('La Fiebre del Loco') by Bernard Pauchon,[http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/Veronica-45205-france-telecom-DIGITAL-CINEMA-global-leaderin-professional-broadcastingand-Education-ppt-powerpoint/ Bernard Pauchon, 'France Telecom and digital cinema', ShowEast, 2001, p. 10.] Alain Lorentz, Raymond Melwig[https://books.google.fr/books?id=drqODwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Critical+Space+Infrastructures&hl=fr&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjd2LGj9sLhAhXKxYUKHb_aCogQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=Critical%20Space%20Infrastructures&f=false Alexandru Georgescu (et al.), 'Critical Space Infrastructures. Risk, Resilience and Complexity', Springer, 2019, p. 48.] and Philippe Binant.[http://www.01net.com/article/181540.html 'Premire numrique pour le cinma franais', 01net, 2002.]
References
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