Raúl Peralta

Raúl Peralta (played by Alfredo Castro) is the main character and villains in Pablo Larraín's 2008 film Tony Manero.

He is a man in his fifties who is obsessed with Saturday Night Fever, more specifically with its main character Tony (hence the title), whose goal is to win a TV Show impersonation contest based on him. Raúl lives with two fatherless families -one of these women being his couple- in a big old house whose hall is also used as a restaurant. Political issues seem to affect relationships to some degree, the kids being against Pinochet's dictatorship and their mothers sympathising with it, while Peralta is indifferent towards the military regime. They are preparing a musical number where they dance for the customers to the song You Should be Dancing by the Bee-Gees (also featured in Saturday Night Fever), which means that besides money, Raúl is probably wanting to gain notoriety for their show by appearing on TV. It is the production of this number that'll take his obsession to murderous extremes.