

The Christmas Tango
2011-12-01 · 102 min · ★ 7.2
At the time of the Greek junta, in an isolated army camp, a lieutenant forces a soldier to teach him the tango in order to ask the wife of his Colonel to dance with him.
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- Directors
- Nikos Koutelidakis
- Production companies
- N-Orasis Audiovisual, Graal
- Countries
- Greece
- Status
- Released
Top Cast
Giannis BezosManolis Loggos
Yannis StankoglouStefanos Karamanidis
Antinoos AlbanisLazaros Lazarou
Vicky PapadopoulouZoi Loggou
Eleni KokkidouParaskevi
Vassilis RisvasNotis Voskopoulos
Vasilis PapadimitriouAnastasiou
Foivos KontogiannisGianoulakos
Giorgos PapageorgiouDoctor
Vangelis RomniosBakas
Thanos ChronisKallergis
Giorgos KonstasBrigadier General
Dimitris AntoniouDriver
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