Cinema
Tango feroz: la leyenda de Tanguito
Marcelo Piñeyro · 1993
Synopsis
In the transition from the sixties to the seventies, when Argentine rock is born, the film tells the love story of José Alberto Iglesias, known as Tanguito, and Mariana, according to the Diario de Cuyo. It also follows Tanguito's drug dependence and his friendship with the musician Moris. Fernán Mirás and Cecilia Dopazo play the leading roles.
Context
Released in the capital on 3 June 1993, the film was written by the director and Aída Bortnik; co-produced with Spain, it earned 4,225,000 dollars, a record at the time for an Argentine film. A San Juan daily speaks of one million seven hundred thousand spectators. Musicians of the period did not recognise themselves in it, and Litto Nebbia refused to take part; the authors replied that it was a fiction portraying an era. A Punta del Este cycle has screened it again in the presence of the director.
Who it is for
A musical film in Spanish of more than two hours, carried by songs, which lays claim to the legend rather than to the biography.
Prizes and reception
Silver Condors for best first work and best music; first prize in the international competition at Turin in 1993.
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