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Luces de Buenos Aires (1931)

Luces de Buenos Aires poster
Original title
Las luces de Buenos Aires
Directed by
Adelqui Migliar Icardi
Genre
musical film
Country
Argentina, United States
Runtime
1h 25m
Rating
6.2 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man from the countryside travels to Buenos Aires and gets caught up in the city's tango scene. The film combines comedy with musical numbers as he pursues love and success.

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What happens

The Lights of Buenos Aires (Spanish: Luces de Buenos Aires) is a 1931 American-Argentine tango comedy film directed by Adelqui Millar. It was made at the Joinville Studios in Paris, where Paramount Pictures concentrated its foreign-language production during the early 1930s. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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