[Tango-L] The ZVI MIGDAL group

[Tom Stermitz]

There is a 1991 movie called "Naked Tango" (Tango Desnudo) that uses  
the "white slave trade" as a plot element.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100222/


It is a bit rough & violent, but but gripping and pretty well-done.  
The movie explores issues of power/control and desire/passion within  
and without the tango, set in the Buenos Aires of 1920s. It is richer  
in its own way than many other tango movies, say Assassination Tango.


Here is the plot summary at imdb:

> Returning by ship to South America, a young girl escapes her  
> elderly husband by swapping places with a girl committing suicide.  
> She believes her new life will be that of an arranged marriage but  
> finds it is in fact a trick to get her working in a brothel.




On Jan 29, 2007, at 11:32 AM, Andrew RYSER SZYMAÑSKI wrote:

> It is curious that nobody else picked up the Jewish
> Mafia element, and it is not mentionned in the group's
> website. We get a lot of crocodile tears about the
> slave trade, but we need to remember that it was
> criminal organisations like this, disbanded and taken
> to court in 1930, that gave ample fuel to the rising
> anti-semitism in the thirties. Indeed, the girl who
> squealed on them at the time would not have been able
> to do so successfully without influential layers of
> society [not just in Argentina] moving to the right.
> One of the consequences was that prostitution was made
> illegal in Argentina a few years later.
>  This is what makes the choice of this name more than
> ambiguous. Its connotations are not as clear as, say,
> "Dead Kennedys".