The Dancer (1989)
Against the backdrop of late 19th-century Berlin, Toyotaro Ota, a young Japanese uni student studying in Germany, meets and falls in love with 16-year-old local dancer Elise. Their unconventional affair and subsequent cohabitation stir up a massive scandal that threatens his reputation, eventually reaching the ears of officials in Japan.
- Released
- 1989-10-12
- Genres
- Drama
- Runtime
- 123 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Masahiro Shinoda, Hans Borgelt, Tsutomu Tamura, Masahiro Shinoda
- TMDB rating
- 6.4/10 from 5 votes
Cast
- Hiromi Go as Toyotaro Ota
- Lisa Wolf as Elise Weigelt
- Brigitte Grothum as Anna Weigelt
- Haruko Katō
- Mareike Carrière as Luise von Bülow
- Christoph Eichhorn as Von Meintheim
- Toru Masuoka as Kenkichi Aizawa
- Shiro Sano as Takashi Tanimura
- Takuzo Kadono as Kazusaburo Fukushima
- Rolf Hoppe as Robert Koch
- Tsutomu Yamazaki as Count Amagata
- Hans-Uwe Bauer as Fritz Krüger