title: Naked Tango
text: # Naked Tango
  
  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. The choreography was created by Carlos Rivarola.
  
  ## Synopsis
  
  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.
  
  ## Cast
  
  * Vincent D'Onofrio …Cholo
  * Mathilda May …Alba / Stephanie (Estefanía)
  * Fernando Rey …Juez Torres
  * Tony Payne …Waiter
  * Henry Holmes …Passenger
  * Anthony Pratt …Boat Captain
  * Roberto Scheuer …Inmmigration Officer
  * Esai Morales …Zico Borenstein
  * Cipe Lincovsky …Mother
  * Josh Mostel …Jewellery man Bertoni
  * Sergio Lerer …Fake Rabbi
  * Patricio Bisso …Gastón The Hairdresser
  * Constance McCashin …Flora
  * Vando Villamil …Cop
  * Javier Portales …Chief Inspector of Police
  * Marcos Woinski
  * Rubén Szuchmacher
  * Néstor Zacco …Cop
  * Inés Yujnovsky …Bebe
  * Harry Havilio …Doctor
  * Kerry Warn
  * Anne Henry …Maid
  * Bill James …Butler
  * Armando Capó …Guard
  * Claudio Garófalo …Musician
  * Héctor Arbelo
  * Santos Maggi
  * Jorge Sabaté
  * Guillermina Quiroga …Woman at the Cabaret
  * Grecia Levy
  
  ## Awards
  
  The film was nominated for the Critics' Prize at the 1991 Deauville Film Festival.
  
  