A man is obsessed with John Travolta's disco dancing character from Saturday Night Fever (1977).
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Pablo Larraín
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| Alfredo Castro | ... | Raúl Peralta | |
| Amparo Noguera | ... | Cony | |
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Héctor Morales | ... | Goyo |
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Paola Lattus | ... | Pauli |
| Elsa Poblete | ... | Wilma | |
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Nicolás Mosso | ... | Tomás |
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Enrique Maluenda | ... | TV host |
| Marcelo Alonso | ... | The Rumanian | |
| Antonia Zegers | ... | TV producer | |
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Diego Medina | ... | TV producer |
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Cristián Ordoñez | ... | TV security guard |
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Greta Nilsson | ... | Cinema cashier |
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Marta Fernández | ... | Assaulted old lady |
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Marcial Tagle | ... | Glass seller |
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Freddy Huerta | ... | Man with flyers |
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Raúl, a middle-aged, unemployed man, is obsessed by the character Tony Manero, who John Travolta plays in the film "Saturday Night Fever". He tries to imitate Travolta's impersonation in every detail, to be able to perform the most perfect Tony Manero himself. Raúl lives in a shabby house in Santiago. In a spacious room the landlady Wilma has a simple stage, where Raúl and some other tenants rehearse a show in Tony Moreno style. The young performers Goyo and Pauli are involved in underground activities against the Pinochet regime. Goyo gives some political flyers to a man. Raúl tails the man, and happens to see the secret police shooting him. After a while Raúl returns to the corpse, and steals the man's wristwatch. He goes to a junk dealer, where he swaps the watch for some thick glass bricks. He needs these for the stage floor, to be able to light up the show from beneath, just as in the film. In need of more glass bricks, he kills the junk dealer and steals the bricks. In his new ... Written by Maths Jesperson {maths.jesperson1@comhem.se}
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28 August 2008 (Chile) See more »Also Known As:
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Don Enrique: [subtitled version] And now we present our look-alike contest: 'The One O'clock Festival'
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Chile's 2009 Academy Awards official submission to Foreign-Language Film category. See more »Goofs
The "Members Only" jacket worn by Raul wasn't introduced until 1981, and the film takes place in 1978. See more »Quotes
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TONY MANERO (dir. Pablo Larraín) The film is set in Chile during the fascist reign of Augusto Pinochet, and focuses on a man who is obsessed with John Travolta's discotheque super-star character in Saturday NIGHT FEVER. This might have been played for laughs, but Pablo Larrain's film is an evil fantasy of disco glory that portrays an obsessive and twisted character who is willing to kill to to fulfill his grotesque vision of acclaim. The frenzied violence in this film is so sudden and inexplicable that it literally takes your breath away. The film seems to present a subtle metaphor that compares the highly stylized nature of disco to the uncompromising fascist posturing of totalitarianism. ABSOLUTE MUST SEE