Naked Tango is a 1990 erotic film drama film. An Argentina-international co-production, it was written and directed by Leonard Schrader, and stars Vincent D'Onofrio, Mathilda May, Esai Morales and Fernando Rey.[ entry] 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.
[Nora Glickman, The Jewish White Slave Trade and the Untold Story of Raquel Liberman, Routledge 1999]
Cast
Awards
The film was nominated for the Critics' Prize at the 1991 Deauville Film Festival.
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