Naked Tango

Naked Tango is a 1990 erotic drama film. An Argentinean-international co-production, it was written and directed by Leonard Schrader, and stars Vincent D'Onofrio, Mathilda May, Esai Morales and Fernando Rey.[1] The choreography was created by Carlos Rivarola.

Naked Tango
UK VHS sleeve
Directed byLeonard Schrader
Produced byDavid Weisman
Written byLeonard Schrader
Starring
Music byThomas Newman
CinematographyJuan Ruiz Anchía
Edited byDebra McDermott
Production
company
Gotan
Grupo Baires
Jade M
Praesens-Film
Sugarloaf Films Inc.
Towa
Distributed byNew Line Cinema (1991, USA)
Toho-Towa Distribution (1991, Japan)
Release date
  • September 27, 1990 (1990-09-27)
(West Germany)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryArgentina
Switzerland
Japan
United States
LanguageEnglish
Spanish
Box office$81,777

Synopsis

Returning by ship to Buenos Aires in the 1920s, a young woman escapes her elderly husband by swapping places with a woman committing suicide. She believes her new life will be that of an arranged marriage but finds it is in fact a ruse to cause her to work in a brothel. The film plays on the association of tango with brothels and clearly alludes to the practices of the Zwi Migdal white-slavery and prostitution ring that was active in Buenos Aires early in the twentieth century and was dissolved thanks to Raquel Liberman.[2]

Cast
  • Vincent D'Onofrio …Cholo
  • Mathilda May …Alba / Stephanie (Estefanía)
  • Fernando Rey …Juez Torres
  • Tony Payne …Waiter
  • Henry Holmes …Passenger
  • Anthony Pratt …Boat Captain
  • Roberto Scheuer …Inmmigration Officer
  • Esai Morales …Zico Borenstein
  • Cipe Lincovsky …Mother
  • Josh Mostel …Jewellery man Bertoni
  • Sergio Lerer …Fake Rabbi
  • Patricio Bisso …Gastón The Hairdresser
  • Constance McCashin …Flora
  • Vando Villamil …Cop
  • Javier Portales …Chief Inspector of Police
  • Marcos Woinski
  • Rubén Szuchmacher
  • Néstor Zacco …Cop
  • Inés Yujnovsky …Bebe
  • Harry Havilio …Doctor
  • Kerry Warn
  • Anne Henry …Maid
  • Bill James …Butler
  • Armando Capó …Guard
  • Claudio Garófalo …Musician
  • Héctor Arbelo
  • Santos Maggi
  • Jorge Sabaté
  • Guillermina Quiroga …Woman at the Cabaret
  • Grecia Levy

Awards

The film was nominated for the Critics' Prize at the 1991 Deauville Film Festival.

References
  1. entry
  2. Nora Glickman, The Jewish White Slave Trade and the Untold Story of Raquel Liberman, Routledge 1999


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