Finnish Tango

CineDoc presents Midsummer Night’s Tango at the French Institute in Athens on 5th March. The movie is a humorous, light-hearted road movie, accompanying three Argentinean tango musicians as they leave the milongas of Bue­nos Aires to discover tango in faraway Finland.

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.  

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)“.

The award winning Greek director Tasos Boulmetis, who has spent years learning tango in Buenos Aires, will talk with the audience after the screening.    

The European tango champions Gabriel Marino and Elli Karadimou will dance the tango

After the screening, Finnish fingerfood from the Scandinavian restaurant Safka will be offered to the audience.

Place: French Insitute, Sina 31, Athens  / Entrance fee 6 E

The film will also be screened at the Danaos Cinema on Sunday 9^th March at 16.00 (tel 210 69 22 655).

With the Support of the Embassy of Finland