Tango: Our Dance

Jul 14, 1988

1h 9m

★ 7.0

Overview

Documentary filmed in Buenos Aires that shows the importance of tango for Argentines, with dance scenes, voiceovers and interviews with professionals but also with other anonymous characters who find their form of expression in this music. The film was shot at a time of tango revival around the world.

Genres

Documentary

Music

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Cast

Voz en off

Oscar Martínez

Intérprete de "A Buenos Aires" y "Piazzolla en Concierto"

Julio Bocca

Solo femenino

Eleonora Berlante

Pareja alegórica de época

Arturo Bonín

Entrevistado / Clase de tango argentino

Juan Carlos Copes

Entrevistado

Robert Duvall

Pintor en atelier

Hermenegildo Sabat

Pareja alegórica de época

Mónica Lacoste

T'ai Chi Chuang

Emiliano Guerrero

Ex-combatiente de Malvinas

Pablo Machado

Biodanza

Patricia Mariscotti

Break-dance

Jorge Marrone

Hugo Santiago and writers Juan José Saer and Jorge Semprún move back and forth between Paris and the city of Aquilea in a shadowy fable about exile. The frontier between one city and the other begins to blur after Bandoneonist Rodolfo Mederos is visited by his sister, a member of a guerrilla organization.

6.5

The Tango Lesson

Nov 28, 1997

On a trip to Paris Sally meets Pablo, a tango dancer. He starts teaching her to dance then she returns to London to work on some "projects". She visits Buenos Aires and learns more from Pablo's friends. Sally and Pablo meet again but this time their relationship changes, she realises they want different things from each other. On a trip to Buenos Aires they cement their friendship.

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0.0

Espérame

Feb 27, 1933

A singer is in love with a young woman who is being extorted by a rich rancher.

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7.5

Astor Piazzolla: The Next Tango

Jun 12, 2007

Piazzolla and his Quintet perform with the Cologne Rundfunk Orchestra conducted by Pinches Steinberg in this film by Jose-Montes Baquer. Piazzolla is also featured in conversation.

5.3

Gran Casino

Jun 12, 1947

After the mysterious disappearance of an oil well owner, one of his workers, Gerardo assumes the business management. Soon, the owner's sister arrives from Argentina, and, believing that Gerardo killed her brother to keep the wells for himself, she starts working as a singer under a false name in the same casino her brother disappeared, in order to find out what exactly happened.

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5.0

Radio Bar

Sep 10, 1936

No overview available.

6.5

Tango

Aug 6, 1998

A dangerous love affair inspires a director to create the most spectacular and boldly seductive dance film ever made.

0.0

Tango

Aug 9, 1985

A brief history of the emergence and artistic innovations of tango in 19th-century Argentina and Europe. The film offers a mosaic of tango melodies, art works, dance performances, historical footage, photographs of Buenos Aires at the turn of the 20th century, and texts by Celedonio Flores and Enrique Santos Discépolo.

0.0

Gardeliana

Oct 1, 2020

A group of Carlos Gardel fans gathers every year at the Chacarita Cemetery to commemorate the anniversary of his death. Gardeliana portrays the ritual of a national hero, a day of saddened faces that coexist between the marvelous and the ghostly.

0.0

Malena sings the tango...

Jul 28, 2025

Malena, a young photographer, finds a box of family memories while helping clean her parents' house. Among the objects, she discovers some old VHS tapes that belonged to her grandfather, whom she never met. Through these recordings, Malena delves into her grandfather's passions for tango, embarking on an intimate journey that also leads her to self-discovery.

0.0

Recordando al Zorzal

Jan 1, 1965

The life, work and tragic disappearance of Carlos Gardel, the Creole thrush.

5.0

El astro del tango

Feb 7, 1940

Accidental meeting between a pop-music superstar and a politician's daughter turns into a big romance... but class distinctions, and scandal in the family.

7.7

Tango Bar

Jul 16, 1935

Ricardo Fuentes (Carlos Gardel) leaves Buenos Aires after loosing in horse races to go to Barcelona, where he plans to open a tango bar, a new concept of tango dance show and dance saloon. On the ship he meets Laura Montalván (Rosita Moreno) who happens to be a thief working with a thief pal. Ricardo watches them robbing a lady's bracelet aboard but decides not to report them because he has fallen in love with Laura. Once in Barcelona, he opens the tango bar but Laura's partner tells him he sold the bracelet and now needs to recover it to avoid both Laura and him going to jail.

6.2

La cumparsita

Apr 20, 1947

A reporter and tango singer is sent to the war zone in 1916, where he loses his memory.

10.0

Memories

Oct 31, 2023

Remembering his old memories, he will leave a photograph in every place where he was happy.

8.5

Así cantaba Carlos Gardel

Jan 1, 1935

A film that brings together ten of the fifteen shorts that Carlos Gardel filmed in 1930 under the direction of Eduardo Morera, in the film studios of the pioneer Federico Valle.

5.8

San Telmo Tapes

Oct 16, 2020

Portrays the misunderstandings, losses and shipwrecks of the past of an unusual character who walks the streets of San Telmo forced to build a new identity.

10.0

Melián 3167

Aug 22, 2022

César and Luis, two tango authors, visit Polaco Goyeneche at his house, to give him a song in his honor. Based on the song "Ciudadano de Saavedra" by César Rossi and Julio Pane.

6.3

Pichuco

Apr 6, 2014

A musical tour through the work of Aníbal "Pichuco" Troilo, one of the defining figures of tango and Argentinian music.

5.6

Ayúdame a vivir

Aug 26, 1936

While studying at a Catholic boarding school, the young Luisa meets a boy, Julio, who talks to her from the street and through the gate. However, the girl's arrogant older brother removes her from the establishment and takes her to live in her family house. The beginning of love between Luisa and Julio is made even more difficult by what seems to be the beginning of a disease in her.