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Story
Synopsis
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.
- Director
- Masahiro Shinoda
- Writers
- Masahiro Shinoda, Hans Borgelt, Tsutomu Tamura
- Language
- German
- Country
- Germany, Japan
- Release date
- 12 October 1989
Ensemble
Cast
Hiromi Go
Toyotaro Ota
Lisa Wolf
Elise Weigelt
Brigitte Grothum
Anna Weigelt
Haruko Katō
Mareike Carrière
Luise von Bülow
Christoph Eichhorn
Von Meintheim
Toru Masuoka
Kenkichi Aizawa
Shiro Sano
Takashi Tanimura
Takuzo Kadono
Kazusaburo Fukushima
Rolf Hoppe
Robert Koch
Tsutomu Yamazaki
Count Amagata
Hans-Uwe Bauer
Fritz Krüger
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