The Tango Player

The Tango Player (1991)

A bitter East German odyssey during the '68 Prague Spring

TMDb 0.02/18/19911h 36m
Drama
IMDb

Original Title

Der Tangospieler

Status

Released

Production Companies

DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme

Original Language

DE

Budget

-

Revenue

-

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.

Director

Roland Gräf

Production Countries

East Germany

Spoken Languages

German

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