The Tango Player

A bitter East German odyssey during the '68 Prague Spring

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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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Creators

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Roland Gräf

director

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Roland Gräf

writer

Christoph Hein

writer

Cast

Michael Gwisdek actor Corinna Harfouch actor

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Hermann Beyer actor

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Peter Prager actor Peter Sodann actor Jaecki Schwarz actor

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Hilmar Baumann actor

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Jeannine Burch actor

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Michael Kind actor

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Reiner Heise actor

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Anne Kasprik actor

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Harry Merkel actor Gunter Schoß actor

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Christine Harbort actor

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Ruth Glöss actor

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Jürgen Zartmann actor

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Marylu Poolman actor

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Katrin Klein actor

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Jörg Simonides actor

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Ilona Schulz actor