''Tanga (Deu no New York Times?)'' is a 1987

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ian

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directed by the comic artist Henfil and written by him and Joffre Rodrigues.

Synopsis

The setting is Tanga, a small miserable island with an illiteracy rate of 99%. The country is headed by Herr Walkyria Von Mariemblau (Rubens Corrêa). Each day, a copy of ''

The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid d ...

'' is delivered to the dictator, the only such copy available on the island. After he reads each day's newspaper, he incinerates it to prevent it from falling into the hands of communist guerrillas, who covet the newspaper, sharing his belief that "

knowledge is power The phrase "" (or "" or also "") is a Latin aphorism meaning "knowledge is power", commonly attributed to Sir Francis Bacon. The expression "" ('knowledge itself is power') occurs in Bacon's ''Meditationes Sacrae'' (1597). The exact phrase "" ...

."At one time the phrase "deu no New York Times" ("it was in

") was a colloquialism used in Brazil to mean that something was undoubtedly true.

Cast

* Rubens Corrêa as Herr Walkyria Von Mariemblau *

Elke Maravilha Elke Maravilha ( Grünupp;Cristina Pereira Cristina Pereira (8 March 1968 – 30 October 2009) was a Portuguese beach volleyball player. She competed in the women's tournament at the 2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and ...

as Liga da Mulher Ideal * Henfil as Kubanin *

Flávio Migliaccio Flávio Migliaccio (26 August 1934 – 4 May 2020) was a Brazilian actor, film director and screenwriter. He appeared in more than 90 films and television shows between 1958 and 2019. His 1962 film ''The Beggars'' was entered into the 3rd ...

as Partido Comunista Tanganês The cast also includes

Chico Anysio Chico Anysio (born Francisco Anysio de Oliveira Paula Filho, 12 April 1931 – 23 March 2012) was a Brazilian actor, comedian, writer and composer. Biography Anysio was born in Maranguape, Ceará. He moved with the family to Rio de Janeiro ...

, Ricardo Blat,

Zózimo Bulbul Zózimo Bulbul (September 21, 1937 – January 24, 2013) was a Brazilian actor, filmmaker, and activist. Bulbul was a prominent proponent of Afro-Brazilian culture within Brazilian cinema and society at-large. Bulbul co-founded and organized the En ...

, Haroldo Costa,

Daniel Filho João Carlos Daniel Filho (born 30 September 1937), best known as Daniel Filho, is a Brazilian film producer, director, actor, and screenwriter. He starred in the film ''Os Cafajestes'', which was entered into the 12th Berlin International Fil ...

, Jaguar, Ken Kaneko, Procópio Mariano, Hélio Pellegrino, Alan Riding, Joffre Rodrigues, and Fausto Wolff.

Awards

*Golden Sun for Best Film (Sol de Ouro de Melhor filme pelo Júri Popular) at the Rio Cine Festival

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