The Tango Player

Overview
Cast & Crew
Production House

The Plot

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.

Run Time

1h 36m

Genre

Drama

Release Date

18 Feb 1991

Country

East Germany

Language

German

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