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Gardel short films: Yira yira (1931)
In 1930, Carlos Gardel was the star of several films directed by Eduardo Morera: 15 short music films. The recordings were in a short film format and portrayed an interpretation…
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Tango & Cinema: “My Sad Night” (1952)
The film presents Pascual Contursi, an argentine playwright, a poet, a musician and a tango lyricist who falls madly in love with a singer to such an extent that he…
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Tango & Cinema: “Bar El Chino” (2003)
In 2003, argentine filmmaker Daniel Burak made his debut in the film industry with “Bar El Chino”. This film, which can be classified as drama genre, continuously revolves around Tango.
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Tango & Cinema: “I don’t know what your eyes have done to me” (2003)
In December of 2003, argentine filmmakers Sergio Wolf and Lorena Muñoz gave the world a documentary film portraying the always enigmatic life of “The Tango Empress” Ada Falcón. The film…
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Tango & Cinema: ¡Tango! (1933)
Luis Moglia Barth´s movie “¡Tango!” is an example of how complicated dialogues are not necessary for transmitting emotions. This film lacks long conversations among its leading parts, but chooses music…
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Tango & Cinema: Tango returns to Paris (1948).
A film directed by Argentine lyricist and filmmaker Manuel Romero which stars great artists from the 1940s, such as Alberto Castillo, Elvira Ríos, Severo Fernández, Fernando Lamas, Lilian Valmar and…
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Tango & cinema: “Tango’s Story (1949)”
Year 1949 was a complicated period of time throughout the entire world. The war had recently ended, and men were coming back from the fronts to position themselves in the…
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Tango & Cinema: “Naked Tango (1990)”
Actors Vincent D’Onofrio, Mathilda May y Fernando Rey; american, french and spanish respectively, joined to work together when they were summoned by filmmaker Leonard Schrader to make “Naked Tango”. Naked…
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Gardel short films: Añoranzas (1931)
Añoranzas (Yearnings) is considered one of the first sound movies not only in Argentina, but in Latin America. It is one of the 15 short movies directed by Eduardo Morera…