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Enrique Santos Discepolo - Volver Tango
Enrique Santos Discépolo is an episode of the Volver Tango documentary series about the lyricist, composer, actor and film director Enrique Santos Discépolo. It uses narration, interviews and song excerpts to follow him from an orphaned childhood in Buenos Aires to his death in December 1951.
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Theatre and early tangos
The film presents his elder brother Armando as his guardian and artistic guide. It credits Armando's play Mateo with founding the Argentine grotesco. Interviewees argue that Discépolo brought his stagecraft into song and call his tangos three-minute monologues. The narration places Qué vachaché, Esta noche me emborracho and Malevaje, written with Juan de Dios Filiberto, during the 1920s. It traces a line from Qué vachaché through Yira yira to Cambalache.
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Cambalache, cinema and Mores
According to the narration, Discépolo wrote Cambalache in 1935 for Mario Soffici's film El alma del bandoneón. Commentators read the song as a portrait of the century, not of Argentina alone. The episode then covers his tour of France and Spain with Tania, his film work as a writer, actor and director, and his songs with Mariano Mores. These include Uno and, in 1948, Cafetín de Buenos Aires, which one commentator calls his unusual nostalgic tango.
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Perón and Mordisquito
Witnesses describe his friendship with Juan and Eva Perón. They also describe Mordisquito, the radio programme he made in 1951. One interviewee says he made it under pressure from the government press office. The film links the hostility that followed to his final depression. It closes with commentary on his lasting relevance.
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