The Tango Player

The Tango Player

7.0 1991 | 96 min

Drama

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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"A bitter East German odyssey during the '68 Prague Spring"

Released

February 18, 1991

Popularity

0.4

PRODUCTION COMPANIES
DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme
DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme
COUNTRY & LANGUAGE

Production Countries:

East Germany

Spoken Languages:

German
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