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Release Date:
February 18, 1991
Original Title:
Der Tangospieler
Genres:
Drama
Production Companies:
DEFA
Production Countries:
Germany
Ratings / Certifications:
DE: 12
Runtime: 96
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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Costume Design:
Christiane Dorst
Director:
Roland Gräf
Director of Photography:
Peter Ziesche
Editor:
Monika Schindler
Novel:
Christoph Hein
Production Design:
Alfred Hirschmeier
Screenplay:
Roland Gräf
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