The Dancer

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.

• Masahiro ShinodaDirector
• Tsutomu TamuraScreenplay
• Masahiro ShinodaScreenplay
• Hans BorgeltScreenplay
• Su CongOriginal Music Composer

• Hiromi GoToyotaro Ota
• Lisa WolfElise Weigelt
• Brigitte GrothumAnna Weigelt
• Haruko KatōCast
• Mareike CarrièreLuise von Bülow
• Christoph EichhornVon Meintheim
• Toru MasuokaKenkichi Aizawa
• Shiro SanoTakashi Tanimura
• Takuzo KadonoKazusaburo Fukushima
• Rolf HoppeRobert Koch
• Tsutomu YamazakiCount Amagata
• Hans-Uwe BauerFritz Krüger