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Tango [digital videodisc] / Pandora Cinema presents an Argentinian-Spanish coproduction ; Argentina Sono Film ; Alma Ata International Pictures ; a Juan C. Codazzi production idea ; produced by Luis A. Scalella, Carlos L. Mentasti and Juan C. Codazzi ; written and directed by Carlos Saura.

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Culver City, Calif. : Columbia Tristar Home Video, [1999]

Motion picture producers and directors -- Argentina -- Buenos Aires -- Drama.

Tango (Dance) -- Argentina -- Buenos Aires -- Drama.

Motion pictures, Argentine.

Buenos Aires (Argentina) -- Drama.

1 videodisc (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Widescreen version.

Set in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the film tells the story of director Mario Suarez's quest to make the ultimate tango film. Lonely after his wife (one of the film's stars) has left him, Mario must find the themes that will hold the film together, while simultaneously permitting his musicians and dancers the freedom of expression that is necessary to satisfy the tango-hungry Argentine audience. Things become complicated when Mario falls in love with Elena, a beautiful and talented young dancer who is the girlfriend of the powerful and dangerous Angelo Larroca, an investor in the picture. And Mario's creative vision is challenged by his investors when he plans a scene that recreates Argentina's dark years of political suppression and "disappearances."

"1998 Academy award nominee: Best foreign language film."

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