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.
as Hans-Peter Dallow
as Elke
as Dr. Berger
as Roessler
as Schulze
as Harry
as Therese
as Müller
as Sylvia
as Kiewer
as Barbara
as Klufmann
as Barfrau
as Margarete
