Ballet Shoes (film)

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Movie
German title Ballet Shoes
Original title Ballet Shoes
Country of production United Kingdom
original language English
Publishing year 2007
length 85 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Sandra Goldbacher
script Heidi Thomas
production Wenger Piers
music Kevin Sargent
camera Peter Greenhalgh
cut Adam right
occupation

Ballet Shoes is a 2007 British family film directed by Sandra Goldbacher . Emilia Fox plays the orphan Sylvia Brown, who finds a new home with her carer Nana ( Victoria Wood ) in the house of her uncle ( Richard Griffiths ). There she also raises Pauline ( Emma Watson ), Petrova ( Yasmin Paige ) and Posy ( Lucy Boynton ) with Nana's help , when her uncle is considered missing.

The film adaptation is based on the novel of the same name by Mary Noel Streatfeild , which was published in 1936 and is considered a classic in English literature for young people. The film premiered on December 26, 2007 on BBC One .

As early as 1975, the BBC, in collaboration with director Timothy Combe, produced a television series under the same title, which was also the basis of the novel.

action

When young Sylvia Brown's parents die, she and her carer Nana come to the house of her uncle Matthew Brown, an enthusiastic paleontologist who is her only living relative. Brown travels a lot, but sends Sylvia letters and gifts and almost always comes back to his house for Christmas, creating a bond between the two. When a few years have passed, he brings a very special surprise for Christmas, a little orphan girl who was on the RMS Titanic with her parents . The parents drowned. She gets the name Pauline Fossil. In 1921, when little Pauline was just two years old, he brought another toddler with him from Vladivostok , whose mother died in childbirth and whose father toiled to death. It is called the Petrova Fossil. Two years later, a third girl joins the family, whose mother, a ballet dancer, has neither time nor money to look after the child. She gave her daughter pink ballet shoes. The girl gets the name Posy Fossil.

Then Matthew Brown sets out on a larger expedition and assures his niece that there is enough money in the bank for the next five years. For Christmas he sends three different valuable necklaces for the children; that's the last thing you hear from him. Money becomes scarcer during the Great Depression , so that Sylvia is no longer able to pay school fees for Pauline and Petrova. So she decides to teach the girls herself and also to take in boarders in the spacious house. So come dance teacher Theo Dane, John Simpson, who works with cars, and academics Dr. Smith and Dr. Jakes, who are now retired, into the house. Influenced by the professors, the three girls take a vow that they repeat on their birthdays and at Christmas, saying that their name should find its way into history because it belongs entirely to them and nobody can refer to their grandfathers.

The older women volunteer to teach the girls mathematics and literature free of charge, thus helping to relieve Sylvia. On the recommendation of Theo Dane, Pauline, Petrova and Posy introduce themselves at the Academy for Dance and Theater Education, where the director, Madame Fidolia, particularly likes Petrova, who, like herself, has Russian roots. However, Petrova has another dream, she is passionate about technology and dreams of one day flying, just like the famous British pilot Amy Johnson , as she is intrigued by the idea that there are roads in the sky. Pauline and Posy like the theater business. Pauline soon even got the opportunity to audition for the role of Alice . She gets the role, which Winifred Bagnall, who also auditioned, finds unfair. She believes that because of her looks, Pauline will always be preferred. The premiere will be a complete success, as will the other performances. But then Pauline behaves improperly towards the theater manager Mr. French and towards her understudy Winifred, whereupon the role is withdrawn from her and given to Winifred.

Petrova, the most sensitive of the three girls, is worried about Sylvia, who coughs a lot and is obviously sick, but ignores that because she has to and wants to look after the girls. Madame Fidolia has now recognized that Posy, not Petrova, is the most talented of the three in classical ballet dance and encourages the child as much as possible. When Shakespeare's Midsummer Night 's Dream was sought soon afterwards , the Fossil girls also introduce themselves, as they could also contribute to the family income if they got involved. Pauline gets a big role and Petrova a small role. The piece was a huge hit in front of sold-out houses. However, Petrova makes it clear to Pauline that she will break if she has to continue on stage, she only did it to make a living, but her dream is different.

John Simpson has meanwhile become a good friend of Sylvia, even if she sees more in him, which she doesn't dare to show him. When she accidentally hears him laughing with Theo Danes in his room, she cries bitter tears. Pauline continues on the ladder of success, she makes test shots for the film. Posy now fits into her mother's shoes and dances the Cinderella . But even the children's fees and the pensioners' money are no longer enough to keep the big house. Sylvia's uncle has been absent for twelve years and has been pronounced dead. When Madame Fidolia suffers a stroke during a ballet performance, it is a disaster for Posy, as she sees her further dance training at risk. Sylvia, meanwhile, has decided not to let Pauline and Posy perform any more and justifies this with the fact that their immense ambition destroys all the good qualities in them. Posy ran away and spoke to Valentin Manoff, who directed a famous ballet in Czechoslovakia. Pauline then decides, contrary to her conviction, to accept the contract offer from United Artists in order to enable Posy to achieve her dream and to be able to send Sylvia to the warm climate of California so that she can get well again.

But a big surprise changes everything, the uncle returns so that Pauline can continue studying at the theater. He realizes that you have a movie star and a ballet dancer in your family and asks Petrova what her dream is. When he says after her answer that he can safely arrange a few flying lessons with Amy Johnson since he knows her, someone is very happy. And another surprise awaits Sylvia as well. John Simpson only took dance lessons from Theo Danes in order to convey to Sylvia with a dance and the corresponding song what he dared not say to her. Soon after, they both marry.

background

production

Ham House, one of the film locations

The film was shot in Bloomsbury , Ham House , Richmond , County Surrey , New Wimbledon Theater , The Broadway, Wimbledon , London , Richmond Theater , The Green restaurant and Pinewood Studios near Iver Heath and in Buckinghamshire , all of them United Kingdom .

The German dubbing was done by the dubbing company DMT - Digital Media Technologie GmbH, Hamburg, dialogue book: Klaus Schönicke, dialogue director: Dr. Gerhard Graf.

The film was produced by BBC / Granada Productions.

Emilia Fox plays the role of Sylvia Brown. Emilia's mother, Joanna David, starred in the 1975 BBC film adaptation of Ballet Shoes . At the time she was seen in the role of Theo Danes.

Emma Watson , Richard Griffiths and Gemma Jones all starred in the film adaptations of the Harry Potter novels . There they played the characters Hermione Granger , Uncle Vernon Dursley and Madam Poppy Pomfrey .

Emma Watsons first appeared in this film in a role outside of the Harry Potter films. The twin girls Lucy and Nina Watson, who play the young Pauline, are Emma Watson's younger half-sisters. However, they can only be seen on the uncut DVD version of the film.

Soundtrack

Publications

The film premiered on December 26, 2007 in the UK on BBC One. The film was shown in Canada on December 30, 2007. It was released on DVD in Europe on January 7, 2008 .

In the United States, it was released in limited editions in some cinemas on August 26, 2008. It premiered on DVD on September 2, 2008 in the United States. On November 1st, 2008 it was shown in Poland. With a German soundtrack, it was first released on DVD on November 13, 2008, published by KSM GmbH, and on February 20, 2012 in a Blu-ray version. It was shown in Italy on December 25, 2008, in France on May 5, 2009 and in Finland on August 18, 2010, where it premiered as a DVD release.

It was also marketed in the following countries: Argentina, Brazil, Czech Republic, Greece, Russia and Slovenia.

reception

Reviews

The German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) judged: "Ballet Shoes takes on the lovable story of the British children's book classic from 1937 with a lot of feeling for a coherent setting." It also said: "With consistently convincing young actors like Emma Watson ( Harry Potter ), High-quality costumes and wonderfully chorographed dance sequences make a fairytale family film. Wonderful, charming entertainment! ”The story is“ filmically implemented in a classic style suitable for young people ”and takes into account“ the time of the narrative ”to which it is“ adapted ”.

Kino.de spoke of a “charming and well-equipped BBC adaptation of a successful British book for young people. Without kitsch and sentimentality, but with a healthy touch of British irony [] a family and epoch pictures unfold in which both child and adult problems are treated with the necessary amount of empathy ”. Finally it was said: "A tip for girls of all ages, not just because of 'Harry Potter'-Hermione Emma Watson."

Videobuster confirmed the film adaptation that it was "enchanting and close to literature" by the director Sandra Goldbacher and that it was "excellently cast".

Even the lexicon of international films had nothing to complain about and certified the film: “An appealing family film about the realization of dreams. The film adaptation of a youth book from 1936, told with reserved irony. "

In freudeamfilm was to read that the performances were "very good". It is "strange", however, that "three actors (Richard Griffiths, Emma Watson and Gemma Jones) from the Harry Potter films are known". The "background music by Kevin Sargent, which is based on the ballet dance Dance of the Sugar Fairy " was praised, and the direction and camera work are "for a high-quality television production". It was criticized that the story “after about two thirds” no longer really knew where it was actually going, which is why everything “dissolved into a very unbelievable happy ending”.

Awards

"Valuable" rating from the German film and media rating

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release for Ballet Shoes . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2008 (PDF; test number: 114 572 DVD).
  2. ↑ a b c Ballet Shoes - Filmhandlung and background at kino.de. Retrieved November 19, 2016.
  3. ↑ Ballet Shoes ( 2007) In: Synchronized card index
  4. ↑ Emma Watson's twin sisters also appear in “Ballet Shoes” at zaubererbau.de. Retrieved November 19, 2016.
  5. ↑ Ballet Shoes publications in the IMDb (English)
  6. ↑ Ballet Shoes DVD / KSM
  7. ↑ Ballet Shoes Blu-ray Disc / KSM
  8. ↑ Ballet Shoes at videobuster.de (with trailer)
  9. ^ Ballet Shoes. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  10. ↑ Ballet Shoes (2007) at freudeamfilm.blogspot.de. Retrieved November 19, 2016.