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Tamango
Sign in to saveTamango is a 1958 French/Italian film directed by John Berry, a blacklisted American director who exiled himself to Europe. The film stars Dorothy Dandridge, Curd Jürgens, Alex Cressan and Jean Servais.
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7.0A Dutch slave captain, on a voyage to Cuba, faces a revolt fomented by a newly captured African slave, Tamango. The slaves capture the captain's mistress, forcing a showdown.
Cast
- Dorothy Dandridge as Aiché, Reiker's mistress
- Curd Jürgens as Captain John Reiker
- Alex Cressan as Tamango
- Jean Servais as Dr. Corot
- Roger Hanin as Bebe
- Guy Mairesse as Werner
Themes
- ship
- cuba
- mistress
- slave
- revolt
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Tamango is a 1958 French/Italian film directed by John Berry, a blacklisted American director who exiled himself to Europe. The film stars Dorothy Dandridge, Curd Jürgens, Alex Cressan and Jean Servais.
Based on a short story written by Prosper Mérimée that was first published in 1829, the film concerns a slave ship on its crossing from Africa to Cuba, the various people that it carries and the slaves' rebellion while on board.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tamango” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.