The Tango Player
6.2
“A bitter East German odyssey during the '68 Prague Spring”
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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Cast
30 people
Michael Gwisdek
Hans-Peter Dallow
Known for
Good Bye, Lenin!
Old Agent Men
Corinna Harfouch
Elke
Known for
Downfall
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Wolf-Dietrich Brücker
Roland Gräf
Monika Schindler
Hermann Beyer
Dr. Berger
Known for
Dark
The Elementary Particles
Christoph Hein
Also in
Letztes aus der DaDaeR
Herbert Ehler
Alfred Hirschmeier
Peter Prager
Roessler
Known for
The Collini Case
The Girl with Nine Wigs
Christiane Dorst
Peter Sodann
Schulze
Known for
Scene of the Crime
Gundermann
Roland Gräf Director · Christoph Hein Author Peter Ziesche Cinematographer
United States release November 3, 1993 · Produced in XG · Production DEFA, Westdeutscher Rundfunk
Production
DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme
Production
DEFA
Production
Westdeutscher Rundfunk
Production
XG
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Original title
Der Tangospieler
Original language
German
Spoken on screen
German
Release dates
Germany · February 18, 1991
Theatrical
United States · November 3, 1993
New York City, New York
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