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Selected filmography

2013

Midsummer Night's Tango (Poski poskea vasten, 2013)
Blumenschein Viviane
Finland, Germany, Argentina
82 min

Basic Information Original language: Finnish, Spanish
Subtitle language: English, Swedish, German, Spanish
Genre: Documentary film
Oneliner: Argentinians discover Finnish tango
Synopsis: What starts off as a documentary about the stereotypes that are the basis for a culture –featuring the iconography of tango, soccer, and the city– later becomes a rich and moving fiction about the crossroads of culture. Three typical Buenos Aires tango fans set out on a trip to Finland to confirm what great filmmaker Kaurismäki said about tango being a Finnish creation. The trip begins as an almost menacing verbal challenge, and the result is not just another journey to discover the “cultural other” and its different habits, landscapes, and times. It ends up being also a manifest on the possibility of different cultures enriching each other while maintaining their traditions and even spreading them from one generation to the next. Midsommer Night Tango was shot in Buenos Aires and Finland, on roads and big cities, and it’s spoken in porteño, Finnish, and English –this crossroads make the film more likable and moving, honest and simple.
Trailer: http://www.gebrueder-beetz.de/en/productions/cheek-to-cheek?lang=en
Premiere: 11.04.2013, BAFICI 2013, Buenos Aires
Production country: Finland, Germany, Argentina
Filming country: Finland, Argentina
Credits Director: Blumenschein Viviane (also script)
Scriptwriter: Viviane Blumenschein
Cinematographer: Björn Knechtel
Sound recordist: Risto Hankala
Editor: Oliver Weiss
Screenings and awards Production Christian Beetz, Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion (GER)
Pertti Veijalainen, Illume Oy
Gema Juarez Allen, Gema Films (ARG)