Three Sad Tigers

Three Sad Tigers (Spanish: Tres tristes tigres) is a 1968 Chilean drama written and directed written by Raúl Ruiz.^[1] It shared the Golden Leopard award at the Locarno International Film Festival in 1969.^[2]

Plot

The film follows a group of lower-middle class characters in the city of Santiago de Chile. A 28mm lens camera follows Tito who moved to Santiago in search for a better life and works as a car salesman 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 a 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 joined 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 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 control his anger and brutally assaults Rudy. They later take him to a taxi and leave 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

External links

• Three Sad Tigers on IMDb