Tango Cafe

Ai yi, I had to cut it into 14 parts!

Anyhow, this is Tango Cafe, a show put on by Susanna Rahkamo and Petri Kokko in Helsinki in December 2000 (I think). Cast includes:
Susanna and Petri
Albena and Maxim
Rita and Povilas
Barbara and Maurizio
Kati Winkler and Rene Lohse
And two Finnish singles skaters I'd never heard of before and have never heard of since.

Tango is very, very popular in Finland ("Finnish Tango" is a recognized form of Tango, maybe someone will do it for their OD next year ), and the premise of the show is five couples at a "Tango Cafe". The singles skaters are the bartender and the waitress. The main "storylines" are:
1) Petri and Susanna are having a fight
2) Susanna can't get any of the other guys to pay attention to her
3) All the guys are chasing Kati.
The narration is all in Finnish, which I don't speak, but it's very easy to follow along anyway.

Albena and Maxim have a smallish part, which is completely normal since they were (at the time) the lowest ranked team in the show , but they're still in it plenty. Personally, I love all the other teams in it, too, so I barely even mind.

Anyway, I hope the cuts aren't too horrible. I started out studying filmmaking in university, and I'm still very very picky about my editing. The clips are never more than 8 minutes long, so hopefully they won't take too long to download. It is definitely best to watch them in order, and if you feel ambitious and have Windows Movie Maker (or something like it) on your computer, you can string all the clips back together and watch it as a whole.

Tango Cafe Part 1
Tango Cafe Part 2
Tango Cafe Part 3
Tango Cafe Part 4
Tango Cafe Part 5
Tango Cafe Part 6
Tango Cafe Part 7
Tango Cafe Part 8
Tango Cafe Part 9
Tango Cafe Part 10
Tango Cafe Part 11
Tango Cafe Part 12
Tango Cafe Part 13
Tango Cafe Part 14

Wooow!!! Grace!!! I don't know what to say!!!! :<33:
You made sooo much for us!!!! It might take a lot of your time, dear!!! Tango cafe is awesome!
THANK YOU!!!

Lera wrote!

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Tango cafe is awesome

DEAREST GRACE ! I AM SPEECHLESS!!!! THANKS SOOOOO MUCH!!!


I LOOOOOOOOOVE TANGO!!! :<33: :<33: :<33:

Dear Grace, you are absolutly amazing for doing this.
I can't tell you in words how much I apreciate this. It's really a surprise and a beautiful present for us.
I understood that you had a lot of free time to do this but maybe you would have liked to use it otherwise, anyway it's great and I'm thanking you for this from the bottom of my heart.

I have movie maker although I've never used it, so I have to realise first the procedure. It would be great to watch it as a complete show. Thanks for the tip.

I'm very sorry for your back and I do hope that one day a doctor will see it properly and heal it completely, because ignoring and laying for a few days, knowing it will pass, it's not the best solution. At least this is what I think. On the other hand, I'm sure you went already to a doctor and in this case I hope his cures will work as they should and that you'll be as new.. If there is nothing more to be done, I wish you easy days and less pain and a good practice session after all this days.

Thank you for the additional explanations about the show and about "finnish tango" . They were very handy for me.

Grace wrote:

Anyway, I hope the cuts aren't too horrible. I started out studying filmmaking in university, and I'm still very very picky about my editing.

I'm still downloading the first 6 parts so I can't pronounce myself on this. But I'm sure they are great and not "horrible" by far
Once again, thank you for all , for your hard-work and energy to do this for us . Thanks for your time to cut the videos and to upload them . You are a great person. Thanks
I wish you to get well....

alexandra wrote:

I can't tell you in words how much I apreciate this. It's really a surprise and a beautiful present for us.
I understood that you had a lot of free time to do this but maybe you would have liked to use it otherwise, anyway it's great and I'm thanking you for this from the bottom of my heart.

I'm so glad everyone is enjoying it! It took me four years to get a copy of it, I would never make anyone else wait to see it.

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I have movie maker although I've never used it, so I have to realise first the procedure. It would be great to watch it as a complete show. Thanks for the tip.

It should be quite easy to do, but if you have any questions, hopefully I'll be able to explain how it works.

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I'm very sorry for your back and I do hope that one day a doctor will see it properly and heal it completely, because ignoring and laying for a few days, knowing it will pass, it's not the best solution. At least this is what I think. On the other hand, I'm sure you went already to a doctor and in this case I hope his cures will work as they should and that you'll be as new.. If there is nothing more to be done, I wish you easy days and less pain and a good practice session after all this days.

Well, yes, of course I've been to a doctor about it... many times in the past 14 years. The big problem is that it's impossible to predict when the injury will flare up again, and in the U.S. it's quite hard to get an appointment with a medical specialist, so I would have to be able to read the future to be able to schedule appointments when I really need them. Also, my doctor is two hours away, so, in quite cruel irony, even if I could get an appointment, the pain is too bad for me to be able to sit that long. And the way medical insurance works in the U.S. makes it very difficult to change doctors.

Anyway, there's not really anything else they can do about it. The injuries are too old (all happened when I was around 12 or 13) for anything new to work. Mostly what it takes is painkillers and physical therapy.

Anyhow, that's completely off topic, and I just remembered that I must apologize for the ending of Tango Cafe-- where the last clip cuts off is where my copy cuts off, I don't know how much is missing, but I think probably not much. :queen:

DEAR GRACE!!!!!

THANKS SO MUCH!!!!!

THIS IS UNIQUE!!!! :<33: :<33: :<33:

I donºt know what to say!!!!

Grace wrote:

Tango Cafe Part 1
Tango Cafe Part 2
Tango Cafe Part 3
Tango Cafe Part 4
Tango Cafe Part 5
Tango Cafe Part 6
Tango Cafe Part 7
Tango Cafe Part 8
Tango Cafe Part 9
Tango Cafe Part 10
Tango Cafe Part 11
Tango Cafe Part 12
Tango Cafe Part 13
Tango Cafe Part 14

Is there any chance someone to repost this.
Or at least the performances of Albena and Max.

You can see Albena and Maxim's performances in Youtube! here and here

Thanks, Rosee I was forgotten about this video!

rosee wrote:

You can see Albena and Maxim's performances in Youtube! here and here

Thanks!!!

For all those who haven´t seen "Tango Cafe" yet .
I just found valid links :

Tango Cafe, part 4 , Barbara Fusar-Poli and Maurizio Margaglio, Albena and Maxim: (especially for Piemontesina )
http://www.frogsonice.com/video/tango-cafe/Tango_Cafe_04.wmv 41,6 MB

Tango Cafe, part 9 , Suzanna Rahkamo, Albena and Maxim:
http://www.frogsonice.com/video/tango-cafe/Tango_Cafe_09.wmv 39,4 MB

The two links from frogsonice will only show you a white page and nothing to click on, but the download programme of your PC should open immediately!
If not, try here, and click on part 4 and 9:
http://www.frogsonice.com/video/tango-cafe

Thanks to all the unknown uploaders !

Edit: And I just realized that small parts of Albena and Maxim dancing can be seen in other parts, too (You can download from the frogsonice link above.).

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Tango Cafe, part 4 , Barbara Fusar-Poli and Maurizio Margaglio, Albena and Maxim: (especially for Piemontesina )

Thanks Petra... I adore ALL of this TANGO CAFE'!!