| La Fiebre del Loco | |
|---|---|
 Chilean theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Andrés Wood |
| Written by | René Arcos Gilberto Villaroel |
| Starring | Emilio Bardi Luis Dubó |
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Running time | 94 minutes |
| Country | Chile |
| Language | Spanish |
La Fiebre del Loco [1] (The Abalone Fever in Spanish) is a 2001 Chilean comedy film directed by Andres Wood. 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 centers on the conflicts between visiting prostitutes and fishermen's wives in a small fishing village in rural Southern Chile. The village has become obsessed with Chilean abalone [2] [3] (known as "loco" in Spanish, which has a dual meaning of both abalone and craziness). Chaos erupts when the Chilean government temporarily lifts the ban on the collection of this prized mollusk, which is believed to have aphrodisiacal effects. [4]
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]
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