12 Tangos - Adios Buenos Aires
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| Original title | 12 Tangos - Adiós Buenos Aires |
| Country of production | Germany , Argentina |
| original language | Spanish |
| Publishing year | 2005 |
| length | 86 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
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| Director | Arne Birkenstock |
| script | Arne Birkenstock |
| production | Arne Birkenstock, Thomas Springer, Helmut G. Weber for Fruitmarket Kultur und Medien GmbH & Tradewind Pictures GmbH |
| music | Luis Borda |
| camera |
Volker Noack , Sergio Gazzera , Toni Hervida |
| cut | Felix Bach |
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12 Tangos - Adios Buenos Aires is a German documentary by the Cologne director Arne Birkenstock , shot in 2004 in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires . The music for the film was arranged and composed by the guitarist and composer Luis Borda , who brought together some of the most important Argentine tango musicians in an orchestra for the documentary. The film was produced by the Cologne-based production companies Fruitmarket Kultur und Medien and Tradewind Pictures in cooperation with ZDF and ARTE . The development of the script was funded by the media program of the European Union. The film was released by Kinostar GmbH and distributed worldwide by Medialuna Entertainment. As co-producers, Dr. Peter Bach and Hans Georg Haakshorst the production of the film.
content
The documentary tells the story of various tango dancers in crisis-ridden Buenos Aires. In the “Catedral”, a 200-year-old granary in Buenos Aires, an Argentine tango all-star orchestra plays 12 well-known tangos while the guests of the weekly tango ball spin around in circles. The focus is on the 71-year-old professional dancer Roberto Tonet and the 20-year-old dancer Marcela Maiola. Tonet lost his pension during the banking crisis, Marcela is preparing to emigrate to Europe.
Other people dance around them, whom you follow from the “Catedral” into real life during the course of the film: You see the two school children Rodrigo and Fabiana, who live in the impoverished tango district of Nueva Pompeya . Rodrigo is the son of Bolivian immigrants, Fabiana has lived alone with her three siblings since the mother had to go to Spain as a cleaning lady in order to earn the installments for her modest place to stay. The film follows the farewell of the mother and the four children left behind.
In the hippest tango bar in town you can also meet the five freaks of the trash rock band “Las Munecas”, who live here in the “Catedral”, play the tango balls there and interpret Gardel songs on their electric guitars.
Tango is the expression of crisis and hopelessness, and this connection becomes clear through the stories of these tango dancers who have robbed the current situation of wealth, jobs and income.
In 12 tangos the film tells the stories of these dancers and their ancestors. Tango, crisis, immigration and immigration fit in organically, the history of tango itself is told about the past, present and future of these people and a portrait of the city of Buenos Aires is drawn.
music
For the film "12 Tangos", the composer and guitarist Luis Borda put some of the best Argentine musicians together in an orchestra and arranged and recorded 16 tangos exclusively for this film production. Different generations were deliberately united in the orchestra for "12 Tangos":
The 92-year-old Maria de la Fuente sings together with Lidia Borda , according to "Rolling Stone" the "best tango singer of the present". Gabriel Menendez, Jorge Sobral and Eduardo Borda also sing.
The film shows the last shots with the bandoneon legend José Libertella , who died unexpectedly shortly after the end of the shooting. On bandoneon also play Julio Pane and the young, Grammy-nominated, Pablo Mainetti. The solo violin is played by the concertmaster of the Teatro Colón Mauricio Marcelli and is supported by Humberto Ridolfi (violin) and Elisabet Ridolfi (viola). The rhythm group also unites young and old with the pianist Diego Schissi and the Salgán bassist Oscar Giunta. In addition, first-class musicians arrive at instruments that are unusual for tango: Juan Cruz de Urquiza (trumpet), Pablo La Porta (percussion), Marcos Cabezas (vibraphone), Diego Pojomowsky (electric bass) and the saxophone quartet "De Coté".
The repertoire of this orchestra includes classics such as “Adios Nonino”, “Sur”, “La Cachila”, “La Puñalada” and the “Milonga de mis amores”, but also lesser known treasures such as “Pampero”, “En carne propia” or the Waltz "El Paisaje", as well as new compositions such as "Ironía del Salón" and "Corralito". The CD for the film was released by Enja Jazzrecords.
Reviews
12 Tangos started in December 2005 with only seven copies. The film ran for a total of 63 weeks in German cinemas and reached almost 40,000 viewers. The film also ran successfully in Japan and at numerous international festivals such as the Calcutta International Film Festival and the Yamagata International Documentary Festival . Critics hailed the film as the “Buena Vista Tango Club” (TV Today), as a “vibrant documentary about the tango scene and an empathetic social portrait of the often unemployed young dancers in Buenos Aires” (Rolling Stone). The Kölnische Rundschau wrote: “12 Tangos is one of the most erotic and saddest films of this cinema year. Arne Birkenstock from Cologne made a documentary film that at times looks like a feature film because it develops a close relationship with its protagonists. Everything grows out of life in this film - the cameraman Volker Noack is equipped with wonderfully warm images from the cosmos of Buenos Aires. "