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
Original title : Der Tangospieler
A bitter East German odyssey during the '68 Prague Spring
Director : Roland Gräf
Starring : Michael Gwisdek, Corinna Harfouch, Hermann Beyer, Peter Prager, Peter Sodann … See more
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.
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Jaecki Schwarz
Harry
Jeannine Burch
Therese
Harry Merkel
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