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Directed by | John Berry |
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Based on | Tamango 1829 novella by Prosper Mérimée |
Produced by | Adry De Carbuccia Roland Girard Sig Shore |
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Cinematography | Edmond Séchan |
Edited by | Roger Dwyre |
Music by | Joseph Kosma |
Distributed by | CEI Incom |
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Running time | 98 minutes |
Country | Italy/France |
Language | English/French |
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[1] that was first published in 1829,[2] 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.