The tango player Der Tangospieler

Streaming video - 2014

Disenchanted and bitterly resentful, the historian Dr. Dallow has been released after 21 months in prison for playing piano in a subversive student cabaret. He refuses the Stasi's offer to help him get his university position back in exchange for becoming an informant. He lives in increasing isolation and despair as he tries to deal with the hypocritical social system and the injustice done to him. Things change after Soviet tanks roll into Prague in August 1968. The film, including original footage from the 68 invasion in Prague, is based on Christoph Hein's novella that first broached two taboo topics in East German literature: the Stasi and Soviet repression of the Prague Spring.

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Genres
Feature films
Published
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming 2014.
Language
German
English
Corporate Author
Kanopy (Firm)
Corporate Author
Kanopy (Firm) (-)
Other Authors
Roland Gräf (director), Michael Gwisdek (actor), Corinna Harfouch (-), Hermann Beyer, Peter Prager, Peter Sodann, Jaecki Schwarz, Hilmar Baumann, Jeanine Burch, Ruth Göss, Katrin Klein, Klaus Glowalla, Marylu Poolman, Jürgen Zartmann Annette, Büschelberger, Simonides Günther Schörg, Christoph Hein
Online Access
A Kanopy streaming video
Cover Image
Item Description
Title from title frames.
Physical Description
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 120 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Format
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Access
AVAILABLE FOR USE ONLY BY IOWA CITY AND RESIDENTS OF THE CONTRACTING GOVERNMENTS OF JOHNSON COUNTY, UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, HILLS, AND LONE TREE (IA).