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A bitter East German odyssey during the '68 Prague Spring
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.Read moreLess
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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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.
Watch trailerCast & crew
Michael GwisdekHans-Peter Dallow
Corinna HarfouchElke
Hermann BeyerDr. Berger
Peter PragerRoessler
Peter SodannSchulze
Jaecki SchwarzHarry
Hilmar BaumannCast
Michael KindCast
Reiner HeiseMüller
Anne KasprikSylviaExplore the crew
- Director of Photography
- Peter Ziesche
- Director
- Roland Gräf
- Screenplay
- Roland Gräf
- Editor
- Monika Schindler