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The Tango Player

A bitter East German odyssey during the '68 Prague Spring

7 average rating
7
German / 96 MIN. / 1991

The Genres

The Synopsis

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.

The Cast

Michael GwisdekCorinna HarfouchHermann BeyerPeter PragerPeter SodannJaecki SchwarzHilmar BaumannJeannine BurchMichael KindReiner HeiseAnne KasprikHarry MerkelGunter SchoßChristine HarbortRuth GlössJürgen ZartmannMarylu PoolmanKatrin KleinJörg SimonidesIlona SchulzKatka KurzeWilfried Loll

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