Release Date
18 Feb, 1991
Runtime
01:36: (HH:MM)
Synopsis
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.
Original Title
Der Tangospieler
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Actors
Michael Gwisdek
Corinna Harfouch
Hermann Beyer
Peter Prager
Peter Sodann
Jaecki Schwarz
Hilmar Baumann
Michael Kind
Reiner Heise
Anne Kasprik
Gunter Schoß
Christine Harbort
Jürgen Zartmann
Ilona Schulz
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