Released:
1991-02-18

Overview:
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.

Director:
Roland Gräf

Runtime:
1h 36min

Genre:
Drama

• Cast:
• 
  Michael Gwisdek
  as
  Hans-Peter Dallow
• 
  Corinna Harfouch
  as
  Elke
• 
  Hermann Beyer
  as
  Dr. Berger
• 
  Peter Prager
  as
  Roessler
• 
  Peter Sodann
  as
  Schulze