Tango Bar is a 1987 Argentine-Puerto Rican musical drama film directed by Marcos Zurinaga and starring Raul Julia, Rubén Juárez and Valeria Lynch.
[1] It was written by Zurinaga with Juan Carlos Codazzi and José Pablo Feinmann.
It was selected as the Puerto Rican entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 61st Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
[2] A popular Tango venue in Buenos Aires, Argentina is run by two friends: Antonio Estévez, an Argentine musician and bandoneon player and Ricardo Padin, a Puerto Rican poet and pianist.
Elena, who is Antonio's wife, begins a romantic relationship with the Ricardo when Antonio decides to go into exile from his country due to the oppressive climate of the penultimate Argentine civic-military dictatorship (1966-1973), while Elena and Ricardo choose to stay.