La Fiebre del Loco (Abalone

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Plot

The film is about infighting between visiting prostitutes and their husbands' wives in a small fishing village in rural Southern Chile that has become greedy and crazy for 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...
• Patricia López
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  (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