The Tango Player (1991)

7.0/10 • 96 min • Drama

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.

Cast

Michael Gwisdek

Hans-Peter Dallow

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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