Movie

The Tango Player (1991)

• February 18, 1991
• 1h 36m

• Drama

“A bitter East German odyssey during the '68 Prague Spring”

Overview

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.

Director

Roland Gräf

Writers

Roland Gräf, Christoph Hein

Starring

Michael Gwisdek, Corinna Harfouch, Hermann Beyer