The Tango Player(1991)

Name: The Tango Player
Genre: Drama
Released: 1991-02-18
Duration: 96 min
Cast: Michael Gwisdek, Corinna Harfouch, Hermann Beyer, Peter Prager, Peter Sodann

A bitter East German odyssey during the '68 Prague Spring

1h 36m

February 18, 1991

Drama

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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.

Regisseur: Roland Gräf

Drehbuchautor: Roland Gräf