"Por Una Cabeza", is one of the most famous and popular tango songs by Carlos Gardel (composer) and Alfredo Le Pera (lyricist), written in 1935. The name is a Spanish horse-racing phrase meaning "by a head", which refers to a horse winning a race by the length of one head. The lyrics speak of a compulsive horse-track gambler who compares his addiction for horses with his attraction to women. Alfredo Le Pera was a Brazilian from São Paulo, a much Italian-influenced area in Brazil. Le Pera and Gardel died in an airplane crash in Medellín, (Colombia), on June 24,1935.
Tango scenes with "Por una Cabeza" appear in some of the following films or the song is mentioned: Delicatessen (1991), Scent of a Woman (1992), Schindler's List (1993), True Lies (1994), Titanic (1996), Frida (Salma Hayek, 2002), Bad Santa (Uncut Version, 2003), All the King's Men (2006), Easy Virtue (2008) and Planet 51 (2009).
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