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Director
  
Raul Ruiz

Music director
  
Tomas Lefever

Duration
  

Language
  
Spanish

7/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Drama

Screenplay
  
Raul Ruiz

Country
  
Chile

Three Sad Tigers movie poster

Release date
  
1968 (1968)

Writer
  
Raoul Ruiz, Alejandro Sieveking (play)

Initial release
  
December 15, 1989 (New York City)

Cast
  
Shenda Román
(Amanda),
Nelson Villagra
(Tito),
Luis Alarcón
(Lucho),
Jaime Vadell
(Rudy),
Delfina Guzmán
(Alicia Quiroz),
Fernando Colina
(Carlos Sanhueza)

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Three Sad Tigers (Spanish: Tres tristes tigres) is a 1968 Chilean drama directed and written by Raúl Ruiz. It won the Golden Leopard award at the Locarno International Film Festival in 1969.

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Plot

The film fallows a group of lower-middle class characters in the city of Santiago, Chile. As 28mm lens camera follows Tito whom moved to Santiago in search for a better life and works as a car salesmen but is unhappy as his job finds him under constant pressure and scrutiny from his boss Rudy. One weekend when Tito needs to meet up with Rudy to give him papers that would close a car deal, Tito meets up with his sister Amanda and stranger they have encountered that night for dinner. During this dinner, they meet many interesting characters including an English professor who comments that he has join the party as they talk about many topics even utopianism. As this conversations almost causes a fight nearly with a neighboring table of young men who are singing patriotic Chillan songs. Later in order not to be fired, Tito meets with Rudy and brings his sister Amanda so she can ‘offers’ herself to Rudy in exchange for Tito keeping his job. As then we later learn his sister is actually working as stripper and prostitute to survive in Chile.

However, this causes Rudy to be angered when learning Tito’s plan and losing the documents. Once Rudy tells Tito to come pick up his sister, Tito is unable to keep his anger and attacks Rudy. Then later take him to a taxi and leaving him in the streets. This film ends with Tito the next morning walking in the streets of Santiago by himself

Cast

  • Shenda Román as Amanda
  • Nelson Villagra as Tito
  • Luis Alarcón as Lucho
  • Jaime Vadell as Rudy
  • Delfina Guzmán as Alicia
  • Fernando Colina as Carlos Sanhueza
  • Belén Allasio as Chonchi
  • Alonso Venegas as School inspector
  • References

    Three Sad Tigers Wikipedia
    Three Sad Tigers IMDb Three Sad Tigers themoviedb.org