“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.
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Released
Original Language
DE
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In a small North German village a drama played out during and shortly after the Second World War about duty versus individual conscience and morality.
