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The Tango Player

The Tango Player

7,0 /10 (1 Votes)
1991 DE 96 min

Overview

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.

Release date

18/02/1991

Votes

1

Popularity

0.4

A bitter East German odyssey during the '68 Prague Spring

Genres

Status

Released

Original title

Der Tangospieler

Language

DE

Runtime

96 min

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