A bitter East German odyssey during the '68 Prague Spring
Original title
Der Tangospieler
Released
2/18/1991
Origin country
DE
Genre
Drama
Production companies
DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme
Budget
—
Revenue
—
Runtime
1hr 36min
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.
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