La Fiebre del Loco

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. 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.

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 of a feature film (La Fiebre del Loco) by Bernard Pauchon and Philippe Binant.