''Naked Tango'' is a 1990
erotic
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drama film
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. An
Argentinean
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-international co-production, it was written and directed by
Leonard Schrader
Leonard Schrader (November 30, 1943 – November 2, 2006) was an American screenwriter and director, most notable for his ability to write Japanese-language films and for his many collaborations with his brother, Paul Schrader. He earned an ...
, and stars
Vincent D'Onofrio
Vincent Philip D'Onofrio (; born June 30, 1959) is an American actor and filmmaker. He is known for his supporting and leading roles in both film and television. He has been nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award.
His roles include Private Leonar ...
,
Mathilda May
Mathilda May (born Karin Haïm; 8 February 1965) is a French film actress.
Early life
May was born in Paris, France. Her father, playwright Victor Haïm, is of Sephardic Jewish ( Greek-Jewish and Turkish-Jewish) descent. Her mother is the Sw ...
,
Esai Morales
Esai Manuel Morales Jr. (born October 1, 1962) is an American actor. He has had notable roles in the films '' Bad Boys'' with Sean Penn and '' La Bamba'' with Lou Diamond Phillips (1987). His television roles include the PBS 2002 drama series '' ...
and
Fernando Rey
Fernando Casado Arambillet (La Coruña (Spain), 20 September 1917 – Madrid (Spain), 9 March 1994), best known as Fernando Rey, was a Spanish film, theatre, and television actor, who worked in both Europe and the United States. A suave, i ...
. The
choreography
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was created by
Carlos Rivarola
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Synopsis
Returning by ship to
Buenos Aires
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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
Zwi Migdal ( yi, צבי מגדל, Polish: Cwi Migdał) was an organized-crime group by Polish Jewish individuals, founded in Poland and based mainly in Argentina, that trafficked in Jewish women from Central Europe for sexual slavery and forced ...
white-slavery and prostitution ring that was active in Buenos Aires early in the twentieth century and was dissolved thanks to
Raquel Liberman
Raquel Liberman (10 July 1900 – 7 April 1935) was a Polish immigrant to Argentina, a victim of human trafficking. Her denouncement of her traffickers led to the breaking up of the Jewish human-trafficking network from Poland, Zwi Migdal, which ...
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[Nora Glickman, ''The Jewish White Slave Trade and the Untold Story of Raquel Liberman'', Routledge 1999]
Cast
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Vincent D'Onofrio
Vincent Philip D'Onofrio (; born June 30, 1959) is an American actor and filmmaker. He is known for his supporting and leading roles in both film and television. He has been nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award.
His roles include Private Leonar ...
…Cholo
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Mathilda May
Mathilda May (born Karin Haïm; 8 February 1965) is a French film actress.
Early life
May was born in Paris, France. Her father, playwright Victor Haïm, is of Sephardic Jewish ( Greek-Jewish and Turkish-Jewish) descent. Her mother is the Sw ...
…Alba / Stephanie (Estefanía)
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Fernando Rey
Fernando Casado Arambillet (La Coruña (Spain), 20 September 1917 – Madrid (Spain), 9 March 1994), best known as Fernando Rey, was a Spanish film, theatre, and television actor, who worked in both Europe and the United States. A suave, i ...
…Juez Torres
*Tony Payne …Waiter
*Henry Holmes …Passenger
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Anthony Pratt Anthony Pratt may refer to:
* Anthony Pratt (businessman)
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…Boat Captain
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Roberto Scheuer …Inmmigration Officer
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Esai Morales
Esai Manuel Morales Jr. (born October 1, 1962) is an American actor. He has had notable roles in the films '' Bad Boys'' with Sean Penn and '' La Bamba'' with Lou Diamond Phillips (1987). His television roles include the PBS 2002 drama series '' ...
…Zico Borenstein
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Cipe Lincovsky
Cecilia "Cipe" Lincovsky (21 September 1929 – 31 August 2015) was an Argentine actress.
She made her stage debut in 1953, and joined the Berliner Ensemble in 1960. Lincovsky spent much of her career overseas, including in Venezuela and France, ...
…Mother
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Josh Mostel
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…Jewellery man Bertoni
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Sergio Lerer …Fake Rabbi
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Patricio Bisso …Gastón The Hairdresser
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Constance McCashin
Constance McCashin (born June 18, 1947) is an American psychotherapist and former actress, best known for her role as Laura Avery Sumner in the CBS prime time soap opera, '' Knots Landing''.
Early life and career
McCashin was born in Chicago. S ...
…Flora
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Vando Villamil
Vando Jorge Lopes Da Costa Neto (born 24 July 1992), simply known as Vando, is a São Toméan footballer who plays as a midfielder for UD Rei Amador and the São Tomé and Príncipe national team.
International career
Vando made his internatio ...
…Cop
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Javier Portales
Javier Portales, born Miguel Ángel Álvarez (21 April 1937 in Tancacha, Córdoba, Argentina – 14 October 2003 in Buenos Aires), was an Argentine actor who worked in television, film and theater.
Biography
Portales started to work early i ...
…Chief Inspector of Police
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Marcos Woinski
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Rubén Szuchmacher
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Néstor Zacco …Cop
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Inés Yujnovsky …Bebe
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Harry Havilio
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* ''Harry'' (talk show), a 2016 American daytime talk show ...
…Doctor
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Kerry Warn
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Anne Henry …Maid
*Bill James …Butler
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Armando Capó …Guard
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Claudio Garófalo …Musician
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Héctor Arbelo
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Santos Maggi
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People
*Santos (surname)
*Santos (DJ) (born 1971), Italian DJ
*Santos Benavides (1823–1891), Confederate general in the American Civil War
*Santos Balmori Picazo (1899–1992), Spanish-Mexican painter
*Santos (footballer, b ...
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Jorge Sabaté
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Guillermina Quiroga …Woman at the
Cabaret
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Grecia Levy
Awards
The film was nominated for the Critics' Prize at the 1991
Deauville Film Festival
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It was established by Lionel Cho ...
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References
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''Naked Tango''at
Cinenacional.com
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1990 films
1990s erotic drama films
English-language Argentine films
Argentine erotic drama films
Films set in the 1920s
Films shot in Buenos Aires
Films set in Buenos Aires
Films scored by Thomas Newman
American erotic drama films
New Line Cinema films
1990 drama films
1990s English-language films
1990s American films
Films about prostitution in Argentina
1990s Argentine films
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