The Tango Player

The Tango Player

96 mins | Drama | Feb. 18, 1991

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.

The Tango Player

96 mins | Drama | Feb. 18, 1991

The Tango Player
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.
Producers DEFA
Original title Der Tangospieler
Directors Roland Gräf
Writers Roland Gräf, Christoph Hein

Cast

Michael Gwisdek

as Hans-Peter Dallow

Hermann Beyer

as Dr. Berger

Peter Prager

as Roessler

Peter Sodann

as Schulze

Jaecki Schwarz

as Harry

Jeannine Burch

as Therese

Reiner Heise

as Müller

Anne Kasprik

as Sylvia

Gunter Schoß

as Kiewer

Christine Harbort

as Barbara

Jörg Simonides

as Klufmann

Ilona Schulz

as Barfrau

Katka Kurze

as Margarete