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1990 erotic drama film
Naked Tango
UK VHS sleeve
Directed byLeonard Schrader
Written byLeonard Schrader
Produced byDavid Weisman
Starring
CinematographyJuan Ruiz Anchía
Edited byDebra McDermott
Music byThomas Newman
Production
companies		Gotan
Grupo Baires
Jade M
Praesens-Film
Sugarloaf Films Inc.
Towa
Distributed byNew Line Cinema (1991, USA)
Toho-Towa Distribution (1991, Japan)
Release dates
  • September 27, 1990 (1990-09-27) (West Germany)
  • August 23, 1991 (1991-08-23) (United States)
Running time90 minutes
CountriesArgentina
Switzerland
Japan
United States
LanguagesEnglish
Spanish
Box office$81,777

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

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.

Cast

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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