Invitation to dance (film)

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Movie
Original title Invitation to dance
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1977
length 117 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Peter F. Bringmann
script Matthias Seelig
production Alexander Wesemann
music Ingfried Hoffmann
camera Axel Block ,
Hans-Peter Hunecke
cut Diana U. Kischkel ,
Claudia Karsunke
occupation

Invitation to Dance is a German action comedy from 1977 that is set in the Ruhr area , primarily in Herne and Wanne-Eickel . She was an early role model for subsequent Ruhrpott comedies. The main character is the figure of Theo portrayed by Marius Müller-Westernhagen .

action

Theo Gromberg and his faithful friend Enno, an Italian guest workers have a dream: an own truck brand Magirus-Deutz , with whom she in the freight forwarding business want to enter. In order to be able to realize the big hit , Enno goes to work in the steel mill. Theo, on the other hand, does not believe in regular work; he prefers to spend his time betting on horses, gambling and drinking. He gets money mainly by scrounging at Enno and small or large rip-offs. At the beginning of the film, he even pumps up a little girl.

Theo is offensive to many with his cheeky manner, so he is always on the go. The most stubborn pursuer is a group of gypsies who unsuccessfully try to elicit the identity of the gangster Calypso, on whom they want to take blood revenge for a manslaughter in a bar fight. Theo has an assistant in Calypso who can partially support him when he clashes with real gangsters through windy deals. These include Schneider and Jussuf, with whom Theo still has a few bills open. For Theo, who is surrounded on all sides, in the end it means “all or nothing”. With the support of Enno, he only succeeds in playing off his opponents against each other for a short time. By chance, the two of them finally get the money to buy the longed-for truck.

background

The film, the script of which was written back in 1975, was made with financial support from the Kuratorium Junge deutscher Film . It was subsequently bought by Westdeutscher Rundfunk and broadcast for the first time in 1977 on ARD .

Locations

The main locations were Herne and Wanne-Eickel , with the freight yard, the Hotel Alt Crange as a casino and the Pluto colliery as a backdrop. The trotting track is located in Recklinghausen . Some scenes were shot in Gelsenkirchen against the backdrop of the blast furnaces of the Schalker Verein , the bridge scenes with the Roma in Duisburg-Obermeiderich , Rhine-Herne Canal , the credits show the Thyssen steelworks in Duisburg-Bruckhausen .

Impact history

The film met with a positive response from critics and audiences alike. He made the main actor Marius Müller-Westernhagen popular, who also marketed the image of the Theo figure musically, especially with the LPs With Peppermint I'm Your Prince , Sekt or Selters and Stinker . The later cinema production Theo Against the Rest of the World , staged by the same team, followed on from the invitation to dance and was a great cinematic success.

Reviews

"Peter F. Bringmann succeeded in a funny, relaxed staged milieu study full of fresh ideas", so the film review on ngz-online. The lexicon of international film ruled: “Undemanding, but briskly staged television entertainment.” The television program magazine TV Spielfilm described the invitation to dance as a “Ruhrpottstudie” that was “[w] ity, tragic, full of heart”.

literature

  • Robert Fischer, Joe Hembus : The New German Film, 1960–1980 . 2nd edition, Goldmann, Munich 1982 (Citadel-Filmbücher) (Goldmann Magnum; 10211), ISBN 3-442-10211-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for the invitation to dance . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2012 (PDF; test number: 131 059 V).
  2. ↑ See Fischer / Hembus, p. 176.
  3. ↑ cf. ngz-online.de , accessed on October 14, 2007
  4. ↑ Invitation to dance. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  5. ↑ cf. tvspielfilm.de , accessed on October 25, 2007