Tanga (film)
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Director Henrique Filho Music director Wagner Tiso Language Brazilian Portuguese | 5.8/10 IMDb Genre Comedy Duration Country Brazil | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writer Henfil, Joffre Rodrigues Release date August 4, 1987 (1987-08-04) Screenplay Henrique Filho, Joffre Rodrigues Cast Henrique Filho , Flavio Migliaccio , Elke Maravilha , Chico Anysio , Zozimo Bulbul Similar movies The Charcoal People (2000), Fable of the Beautiful Pigeon Fancier (1988), My Voice (2002), Kuarup (1989), Subway to the Stars (1987) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tanga (Deu no New York Times?) is a 1987 Brazilian comedy film directed by the comic artist Henfil and written by him and Joffre Rodrigues.
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Synopsis
The setting is Tanga, a small miserable island with an illiteracy rate of 99%. The country is headed by Herr Walkyria Von Mariemblau (Rubens Corrêa). Each day, a copy of The New York Times is delivered to the dictator, the only such copy available on the island. After he reads each day's newspaper, he incinerates it to prevent it from falling into the hands of communist guerrillas, who covert the newspaper, sharing his belief that "knowledge is power."
Cast
The cast also includes Chico Anysio, Ricardo Blat, Zózimo Bulbul, Haroldo Costa, Daniel Filho, Jaguar, Ken Kaneko, Procópio Mariano, Hélio Pellegrino, Alan Riding, Joffre Rodrigues, and Fausto Wolff.
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