The Tango Player

A bitter East German odyssey during the '68 Prague Spring

Winter 1968. Historian Dr. Dallow is released from prison. He is still trying to cope with and understand why he was put behind bars for 21 months for defamation of the state. His supposed "crime:" for five minutes he accompanied a cabaret chanson on the piano. The film shows what "ordinary socialism" was like, letting the audience feel the threat under which the people in the GDR had to live over many years.

• Release date
• February 18, 1991
• Runtime
• 96 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Roland Gräf

Cast

Michael Gwisdek Hans-Peter Dallow Corinna Harfouch Elke Hermann Beyer Dr. Berger Peter Prager Roessler Peter Sodann Schulze Jaecki Schwarz Harry Hilmar Baumann

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Jeannine Burch Therese