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The Dancer

舞姫 (Maihime)

1989
Japan / Germany
feature film - Biography
123 min. (3385 m.)
Location shooting / Berlin story line

Cast

Actor/-ess: Lisa Wolf (Elis Weigelt); Brigitte Grothum (Anna Weigelt); Hiromi Gô (Oota Toyotaro); Christoph Mareike Carrière (Baroness von Bülow); Christoph Eichhorn (Rittmeister von Mehlheim); Irma Münch (Frau von Haase); Achim Wolff (Georg Schleicher); Hans-Uwe Bauer (Fritz Krüger); Andreas Mannkopff (Tonio Busch); Rolf Hoppe (Robert Koch); Gerry Wolff (shoemaker); Gregor Hansen (Hannes Seeger); Silke Klan (Emma); Harald Engelmann (theatre director); Haruko Katô (Toyotaros mother); Jun Hamamura (Hofmarschall); Daijirô Harada (Meiji-Kaiser); Takuzô Kadono (Soejima Wasaboro); Sairi Komaki (geisha); Tôru Masuoka (Kenchichi Aizawa); Takashi Tsumura (Aoki); Masayuki Yui (The state secretary); Tsutomu Yamazaki (Count Amagata); Dieter Knust

Direction

Director: Masahiro Shinoda

Assistant director: Masaru Koibuchi

Writing

Screenplay: Hans Borgelt; Takeshi Tamura; Masahiro Shinoda

Based on: Ōgai Mori

Camera & Light

Director of photography: Jürgen Jürges; Kazuo Miyagawa

Assistant camera / focus puller: Michael Wiesweg

Decor

Set design: Harry Leupold; Michael Tonke

Cutting & Mixing

Editing: Barbara Hiltmann

Sound: Horst Zinsmeister

Music

Music: Cong Su

Production

Producer: Manfred Durniok

Editorial department: Hans Prescher

Unit production manager: Hans-Erich Busch; Rainer Schulte

Companies

Production company: Harald Ace Inc.; Manfred Durniok Produktion für Film und Fernsehen

in Co-Operation: Asahi TV; Asahi Shimbun; Agfa Gaevert Japan; DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme; Hessischer Rundfunk (HR)