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Fatal tango

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fiction

Fatal tango

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When Giulietta Battin, ballet dancer at the Staatsoper Berlin, tries to find out about tango music, her whole life changes. A passionate love affair with the Argentinean Tango dancer Damian Alsina soon turns into a nightmare. Damian sabotages his own show by improvising a strange choreography. Two days later he kidnaps and tortures Giulietta's jealous father and then runs off to Buenos Aires without any further explanation. Giulietta, horrified by Damien's behaviour but also deeply suspicious of her father's unwillingness to talk about the incident, follows Damian to Buenos Aires. But he is nowhere to be found. Giulietta embarks on an odyssey through the visible and invisible tango universe of Buenos Aires, where Damian's strange dancing style gradually reveals itself to be an elaborate code, a way of speaking about unspeakable horrors of the recent past from Argentina's "Dirty War."

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