“I wanted to sensually convey desire for a different culture, as well as describe the impossibility of experiencing something that is out of reach.” —Helke Misselwitz, interview in Der Tagesspiegel, 2019

“Using tango, Misselwitz explores the longing for distant places, her own desires and the political history of the dance.” —dhm.de

“The distant world remains foreign, Montevideo an unattainable dream in the leaden GDR of the 1980s. A grief that, translated into dance, could be a tango.” —Grit Lemke, DOKLeipzig

“TangoDream offers Misselwitz’s most radical attempt to penetrate the surface of images of her own camera, pointing to limitations of time, distance, language, and cultural knowledge as barriers to interpreting photographic evidence of the past. […] The film was widely perceived as an expression of longing to travel and desire to escape the increasingly stifling atmosphere in the GDR.”  —Reinhild Steingröver, Last Features: East German Cinema’s Lost Generation