The Tango Player

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.

Keywords

  • Award Winning
  • DEFA
  • Politics: Human Rights
  • gdr
  • Mental Health
  • social drama

Actors

  • Michael Gwisdek
  • Corinna Harfouch
  • Hermann Beyer
  • Peter Prager
  • Peter Sodann

Director

  • Roland Gräf

Timeless


1h 32min


12 FSK

DE

GDR
Germany
Switzerland
1991
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.

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.


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.

Award
Deutscher Filmpreis

Festivals

Cast & Crew