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Naked Tango
Naked Tango
	UK VHS sleeve
Directed by	Leonard Schrader
Written by	Leonard Schrader
Produced by	David Weisman
Starring	Vincent D’Onofrio; Mathilda May; Esai Morales;
Cinematography	Juan Ruiz Anchía
Edited by	Debra McDermott
Music by	Thomas Newman
Production; companies	Gotan; Grupo Baires; Jade M; Praesens-Film; Sugarloaf Films Inc.; Towa
Distributed by	New Line Cinema (1991, USA); Toho-Towa Distribution (1991, Japan)
Release dates	September 27, 1990 (West Germany); August 23, 1991 (United States);
Running time	90 minutes
Countries	Argentina; Switzerland; Japan; United States
Languages	English; 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.^[1] The choreography was created by Carlos Rivarola.

Synopsis edit

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.^[2]