Naked Tango (1990)

Directors

Leonard Schrader

Cast

Cipe Lincovsky, Esai Morales, Fernando Rey, Josh Mostel, Mathilda May, Vincent D'Onofrio

The story

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.

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