Midsummer Night’s Tango

A film by Viviane Blumenschein.

In co-production with Illume Ltd. (Finland), Gema Films (Argentina), SF and 3sat.

With the support of the MEDIA Progamme of the European Union.

Funded by Filmförderungsanstalt – FFA, Mediaboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Finnish Film Foundation and the Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes Audiovisuales.

Finns have a quirky sense of humour – and are a bit shy. But: Tango is THE folk music of the Finns. The documentary discovers the Finnish tango from the viewpoint of the singer Chino Laborde, the guitarist Diego “DIPI” Kvitko and the bandoneonist Pablo Greco. The three Argentine musicians travel to Finland to find out whether Aki Kaurismäki is telling the truth when he asserts that tango music was invented in Finland.

News

  • - MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S TANGO in Japanese Cinemas

    This month Midsummer Night’s Tango starts in japanese Cinemas. Adventurous, funny and colorful like the movie itself is the japanese [...]

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  • - MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S TANGO tours Brazil in "Panorama Alemão"

    With „Panorama Alemão“ German Films brings selected German productions to Brazil – including Viviane Blumenschein’s MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S TANGO! Between 24 [...]

    With „Panorama Alemão“ German Films brings selected German productions to Brazil - including Viviane Blumenschein's MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S TANGO! Between 24 October and 19 November a total of 15 feature films and a short film reel are presented to the Brazilian audience in four cities. MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S TANGO already ran successfully as the opening film at the festival Janela Internacional de Cinema do Recife and also will be shown in Salvador (Panorama Internacional de Cinema Coisa ) and in São Paulo!

    For further information:
    http://www.panorama-alemao.com.br
    https://www.facebook.com/PanoramaAlemao


  • - MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S TANGO at WOMEX

    Our production “Midsummer Night’s Tango” will be shown at this year’s World Music Expo (WOMEX). The screening will take place [...]

    Our production "Midsummer Night's Tango" will be shown at this year's World Music Expo (WOMEX). The screening will take place during the renowned IMZ World Music Screenings which feature 12 films from 17 different countries. "Midsummer Night's Tango" can be seen on October 23rd at 6 pm at Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea in Santiago de Compostela, WOMEX 2014's venue.

    Midsummer Night's Tango at WOMEX
    IMZ World Music Film Screenings


Midsummer Night’s Tango

A film by Viviane Blumenschein.

In co-production with Illume Ltd. (Finland), Gema Films (Argentina), SF and 3sat.

With the support of the MEDIA Progamme of the European Union.

Funded by Filmförderungsanstalt – FFA, Mediaboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Finnish Film Foundation and the Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes Audiovisuales.

Tango was born in Buenos Aires and no one dances tango as passionately as the Argentineans do – that is at least what the Argentineans themselves believe. Tango is as Finnish as sauna and skiing – that is what the famous Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki and many of his fellow countrymen are convinced of. Two countries, two opinions, two musical traditions.

“Midsummer Night’s Tango” is a humorous, light-hearted road movie, accompanying three Argentinean tango musicians as they leave the milongas of Buenos Aires behind to discover tango in faraway Finland.

Singer Chino Laborde, guitarist Diego “DIPI” Kvitko and bandoneonist Pablo Greco are the stereotypical Argentinean tango musicians. They are noisy, passionate and one hundred percent convinced that their music is the only true tango. Travelling through Finland, they dive into a completely new world. Long strips of forests, hundreds of lakes, bright summer nights and, above all, slightly shy and quiet people who play this foreign music called Finnish tango.

Travelling through the scenic landscape, they encounter great Finnish tango singers and composers such as Reijo Taipale, Sanna Pietiainen and M. A. Numminen. They stumble across open-air dance halls in the deep forest, where people dance through the long midsummer nights to the sound of the melancholic Finnish tango.

Director Viviane Blumemschein created a delicate music documentary, using big, beautifully shot images to capture a longing every tango song sings about. The film is filled with great tango music and the masterpieces of Finnish tango, like “Satumaa (Wonderland)“.

“Midsummer Night’s Tango” is a music-laden, humorous cinema documentary, capturing the many comic and charming moments when musicians from two worlds come together – to discover that they all share the same love for tango music, however different it might sound.

Script/Director: Viviane Blumenschein
With Walter „Chino“ Laborde, Diego „Dipi“ Kvitko, Pablo Greco

Assistant Director : Lisa Häfner, Ella Ruohonen
Director of Photography: Björn Knechtel
Assistant DoP 1st Unit: Diego Mendizabal
Assistant DoP 2nd Unit: Bruno Carbonetti
Editing: Oliver Weiss
Sound: Risto Hankala, Manuel de Andrés
Assistant Sound : Valtteri Rajamäki
Sound Postproduction: Guido Berenblum, Manuel de Andrés
Music: Diego Kvitko
Producer: Georg Tschurtschenthaler
Associate Producer: Anahita Nazemi, Sarah Maret
Line Producer Germany: Kathrin Isberner
Line Producer Finland: Venla Hellstedt
Line Producer Argentina: Gema Juárez Allen
Production Manager: Mayra Bottero, Fito Pochat, Marianne Mäkelä
Production Assistant: Nick Pastucha, Judith Fächner
Technical Supervisor: Philipp Weigold
Production Administrator: Sandra Zentgraf
Executive Producer: Christian Beetz
Co-Producer: Gema Juarez Allen, Gema Films (Argentinien),
Pertti Veijalainen, ILLUME Ltd. (Finnland)
Commissioning Editor ZDF/3SAT: Sonja Schneider

Music:
"La Cumparsita / Tropiikin Yö" - Gerardo Matos Rodriguez
"Nueve de Julio" - José Luis Padula / Lito Bayardo
"Buenos Aires mi querido" - Carlos Gardel / Le Pera
"Union Civica" - Domingo Santa Cruz
"Sus Ojos se cerraron" - Carlos Gardel / Le Pera
"Don Juan" - Florindo Sassone
"Guitarra dimelo tu" - Atahualpa Yupanqui
"Satumaa" - Unto Mononen
"Die Welt ist wie Seide nur" - M.A. Numminen
"Onnenpaivät" - Kari Linquist
"Canción de Buenos Aires" - Orestes Cúfaro / Azucena Maizani / Romero
"Unikuva" - Tapio Lahtinen
"Liljankukka" - Toivo Kärki
"Cambalache" - Disceepolo / Enrique Santos
"Lltatähti" - Kari Linquist
"Tulisuudelma / El Chocklo" - A.Villoldo
"Hiljainen Kylätie" - Metro Tytöt
"Volver" - Carlos Gardel
"Tähdet meren Yllä" - Unto Mononen
"Kevät" - Risto Ollila
"Azucena Alcoba" - Yuri Venturi / Roberto "Palo" Pandolfo
"Nido gaucho" - Marco / Hector / Carlos di Sarli

Koproduktion

Kooperation

Förderer

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    BAFICI - Arte Multiplex Belgrano - Buenos Aires, Argentina
    14 April 2013 at 11:05 pm

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    Rio 2 - DOK.fest München
    12 May 2013 at 8:30 am

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    Rio 2 - DOK.fest München - Munich, Germany
    16 May 2013 at 6:00 am

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    Musikfilmtage - Oberaudorf
    13 July 2013 at 9:30 pm

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    Strandbad Open-Air - Fünf Seen Film Festival - Starnberg
    01 August 2013 at 9:30 pm

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    Schlossberghalle - Fünf Seen Film Festival - Starnberg
    01 August 2013 at 10:00 pm

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    Breitwand - Fünf Seen Film Festival - Seefeld
    03 August 2013 at 10:30 pm

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    Espoo Kulturzentrum - Louhisali, Finland
    20 August 2013 at 7:15 pm

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    Spazio Oberdan, Milano Film Festival - Milan, Italy
    06 September 2013 at 9:00 pm

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    Teatro Strehler, Milano Film Festival - Milan, Italy
    10 September 2013 at 3:00 pm

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    Teatro Studio, Milano Film Festival - Milan, Italiy
    12 September 2013 at 9:00 pm

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    Raindance Film Festival - London, UK
    02 October 2013 at 6:00 pm

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    Nordic Film Days - Lübeck, Germany
    31 October 2013 at 5:00 pm

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    Nordic Film Days - Lübeck
    31 October 2013 at 8:00 pm

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    Nordic Film Days - Lübeck
    30 October 2013 – 03 November 2013

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    Nordic Film Days - Lübeck, Germany
    03 November 2013 at 8:15 pm

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    Ja Ja Ja Festival - London, UK
    09 November 2013 at 5:30 pm

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    Rock Film Festival "Rokumentti" - Joensuu, Finland
    16 November 2013 at 1:00 pm

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    Schouwburg Kleine Zaal, Film Festival Rotterdam - Rotterdam, Niederlande
    28 January 2014 at 8:30 pm

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    Internationales Filmwochenende Kino Central 2 - Würzburg
    31 January 2014 at 4:00 pm

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    Internationales Filmwochenende Kino Central 1 - Würzburg
    01 February 2014 at 11:00 am

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    Avant Premiere / Music + Media Market Berlin - Berlin
    12 February 2014 at 3:30 pm

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    sneak preview, Cinema - Münster
    05 March 2014 at 7:00 pm

  • Avant Premiére 2014 / Music + Media Market Berlin


    10 March 2014 at 8:00 pm

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    in the presence of the director, Cinema - Düsseldorf
    10 March 2014 at 8:00 pm

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    in the presence of the director, Abaton - Hamburg
    11 March 2014 at 8:00 pm

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    in the presence of the director, Kultrubrauerei - Berlin
    12 March 2014 at 8:30 pm

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    in the presence of the director, Programmkino Ost - Dresden
    13 March 2014 at 7:45 pm

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    Premiere in Leipzig, Passage Kino - Leipzig
    14 March 2014 at 7:00 pm

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    in the presence of the director, Friedrichsbau - Freiburg
    14 March 2014 at 7:00 pm

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    International Film Festival Guadalajara, Hilton Auditorium - Mexico
    23 March 2014 at 6:30 pm

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    International Film Festival Guadalajara, Cinépolis CM 4 - Mexico
    24 March 2014 at 5:00 pm

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    International Film Festival Guadalajara, Cinépolis CM 4 - Mexico
    25 March 2014 at 9:45 pm

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    Minneapolis International Film Festival - USA
    08 April 2014 at 12:00 am

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    Festival Internacional De Cine - Panama
    03 April 2014 – 09 April 2014

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    Minneapolis International Film Festival - USA
    10 April 2014 at 12:00 am

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    Millenium International Documentary Film Festival - Brüssel (tbc)
    03 April 2014 – 11 April 2014

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    The Loft at Q Theatre - Documentary Edge Festival - Auckland
    23 May 2014 at 9:30 pm

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    Rangatira at Q Theatre - Documentary Edge Festival - Auckland
    26 May 2014 at 4:15 pm

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    Milano Film Festival - Milano
    04 June 2014 at 12:00 am

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    Cinema 2 Roxy - Documentary Edge Festival - Wellington
    05 June 2014 at 7:45 pm

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    Gdansk Docfilm Festival - Neptun - Gdansk
    06 June 2014 at 10:00 pm

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    Cinema 1 Roxy - Documentary Edge Festival - Wellington
    09 June 2014 at 12:00 pm

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    Budapest International Documentary Festival - Latabár - Budapest
    25 September 2014 at 9:15 pm

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    Ars Independent Festival - Poland
    27 September 2014 at 10:00 pm

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    ARD Kino im ARD Forum - Frankfurter Buchmesse
    09 October 2014 at 4:30 pm

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    Filmfest Eberswalde - Eberswalde
    09 October 2014 at 8:00 pm

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    World Music Expo (WOMEX) - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela
    23 October 2014 at 6:00 pm

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    Cinema São Luiz - Panorama Alemão - Janela Internacional de Cinema do Recife
    25 October 2014 at 5:20 pm

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    Espaço Itaú de Cinema - Panorama Internacional Coisa de Cinema - Salvador
    02 November 2014 at 8:10 pm

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    Espaço Itaú de Cinema - Panorama Internacional Coisa de Cinema - Salvador
    03 November 2014 at 6:00 pm

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    Espaço Itaú de Cinema - Panorama Internacional Coisa de Cinema - Sao Paulo
    06 November 2014 at 7:00 pm

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    Cairo Women Film Fest - Egypt
    30 November 2014 at 9:00 pm

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    Cineteatro Baretti - SeeYouSound Festival - Turin
    16 May 2015 at 4:30 pm

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    Sala 2 Multisala Ambrosio - SeeYouSound Festival - Turin
    17 May 2015 at 11:00 am

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    Martha's Vineyard International Film Festival - Martha's Vineyard
    26 June 2015 at 9:15 pm

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    Oltre il Cristallo - Dolceacqua
    07 August 2015 at 9:15 pm

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    Immagini & Soni del Mundo - Florence, Italy
    02 November 2015 at 9:00 pm

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    3sat
    25 June 2016 at 10:30 pm

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    SF1
    02 July 2016 at 9:50 am

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    3sat
    24 June 2017 at 8:15 pm