Tanga (film) explained

Tanga (Deu no New York Times?)
Director:	Henfil
Starring:	Rubens Corrêa Elke Maravilha Cristina Pereira Henfil
Music:	Wagner Tiso
Cinematography:	Edgard Moura
Runtime:	90 minutes
Country:	Brazil
Language:	Brazilian Portuguese

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.

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 covet the newspaper, sharing his belief that "knowledge is power."^{[1] [2]}

Cast

• Rubens Corrêa as Herr Walkyria Von Mariemblau
• Elke Maravilha as Frau Regine de Regine
• Cristina Pereira as Liga da Mulher Ideal
• Henfil as Kubanin
• Flávio Migliaccio as Partido Comunista Tanganês

The cast also includesChico Anysio,Ricardo Blat,Zózimo Bulbul,Haroldo Costa,Daniel Filho,Jaguar,Ken Kaneko,Procópio Mariano,Hélio Pellegrino,Alan Riding,Joffre Rodrigues, andFausto Wolff.

Awards

• Golden Sun for Best Film (Sol de Ouro de Melhor filme pelo Júri Popular) at the Rio Cine Festival

See also

• List of Brazilian films of the 1980s

Notes and References

1. At one time the phrase "deu no New York Times" ("it was in The New York Times") was a colloquialism used in Brazil to mean that something was undoubtedly true.
2. Web site: Lighting the fuse. 18 November 2014. . When I was a correspondent for The Economist in Brazil, people still occasionally used the phrase "deu no New York Times" (it was in the New York Times) to mean that something was undoubtedly true. . 2014-11-18.