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

Elke

Hermann Beyer

Dr. Berger

Peter Prager

Roessler

Peter Sodann

Schulze

Jaecki Schwarz

Harry

Hilmar Baumann

Michael Kind

Reiner Heise

Müller

Anne Kasprik

Sylvia

Gunter Schoß

Kiewer

Christine Harbort

Barbara

Jürgen Zartmann

Ilona Schulz

Barfrau

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