The dancing heart (1953)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The dancing heart |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1953 |
| length | 94 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Wolfgang Liebeneiner |
| script | Wolfgang Liebeneiner, based on a novella by Walter F. Fichelscher |
| production |
Capitol-Film , West-Berlin, ( Peter Paul Brauer ) |
| music | Norbert Schultze ; Lyrics by Kurt Schwabach |
| camera | Igor Oberberg |
| cut | Carl Otto Bartning |
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The dancing heart is a German fictional film (ballet film, music film, mistaken comedy) that Wolfgang Liebeneiner directed in 1953 for the Berlin Capitol Film .
action
The location of the action is a fictional residential city in Austria, the time the Biedermeier . The young Susanne Haberling studied ballet in Vienna for two years and is now returning to her father. The famous ballet master Alberti is in town, Susanne wants to audition with him and is hoping for a career.
Her father, Hofmechanikus Haberling, is in trouble. He borrowed 5,000 thalers from the windy banker Leopold, to whom even the prince owes money. Leopold threatens to seize the house and does not want to wait until Haberling sells the mechanical doll that he has built to the prince. When the attractive Susanne catches his eye, he changes his tactics and is temporarily magnanimous. On the occasion of his upcoming appointment to the commission council he gives a ball at which he hopes to get closer to Susanne and to win her hand. However, Leopold is not the only applicant for Susanne; Her youth companion Viktor also fell in love with the young woman. When the two unequal rivals get into an argument about their dance card, Susanne leaves the house.
Later both Viktor and Leopold serenade her - on different sides of the house. Susanne discovers her heart for Viktor; So that Leopold is distracted from the action on the other side of the house, she puts the mechanical doll that looks exactly like her in the window. But because the doll doesn't stop waving to Leopold - which the latter interprets as encouragement - Susanne tries to stop the doll. It breaks in the process. Leopold discovers his rival and leaves the house angry.
Before Haberling and his assistant Julius can repair the doll, the prince appears unexpectedly, burning with curiosity about the work of art and immediately requesting a demonstration. He is accompanied by ballet master Roberti. As luck would have it, Leopold appears at the same time with the bailiff to collect the debt. Leopold knows of the destruction of the doll and is more than curious to see how Haberling wants to get out of this situation. But then Susanne slips into the role of the dancing doll. The prince is enthusiastic, appoints Haberling as a councilor and decides that the doll should appear in Roberti's ballet in the evening. Leopold of course saw through the fraud and asks the alleged doll - actually Susanne - as security.
Viktor asked Haberling for Susanne's hand and followed Leopold to his hotel because he was right to fear that Leopold would try to attack Susanne there. Susanne escapes Leopold, locks herself in a broom closet overnight and then hurries into Viktor's arms. He has meanwhile spoken to his father, an influential courtier who informed the prince about Leopold's machinations. When Leopold insists on getting the “stolen” doll back, the prince has him give it to him in writing that he will waive all further claims - against himself and against Haberling - after receiving the doll.
Haberling succeeds in repairing the doll, especially the “heart”: the delicate mechanism that keeps the doll in balance. Since Susanne initially doesn't know anything about the successful repair, she slips into the role of a doll again; but then the puppet comes on stage as well. Roberti is so enthusiastic about the 2-puppet dance number that he hires Susanne, who is now engaged to Viktor. Instead of Susanne, Leopold only gets the doll.
Production and evaluation
The film, which was extensively shot in Agfacolor , was made in the Berlin-Tempelhof studios. Gertrud Kückelmann has been one of the most popular young film actresses in Germany since she received the Federal Film Prize for “Best Young Actress” in 1951 . Das tanzende Herz was her second collaboration with director Wolfgang Liebeneiner; just a few months earlier, Kückelmann had shot Die Stronger under his direction . The daughter of an actress had taken ballet lessons from an early age, had been a ballet student at the Munich State Opera from 1942–1946 and continued to dance until she finally took acting lessons and made her stage debut at the Munich Kammerspiele in 1949. The dancing heart was Kückelmann's first and only ballet film. Heinz Rosen, who plays the ballet master in the film, choreographed the dance scenes. In May 1953 Rosen had premiered Jacques Chailley and Jean Cocteau's ballet La Dame la licorne at the Munich Theater am Gärtnerplatz and thus achieved world fame.
Prisma-Verleih took over the theatrical release. The film premiered on October 23, 1953 at the Aegi Hannover .
criticism
"[...] Biedermeier commedia in the style of Hoffmann's stories, a film fairy tale prepared with taste and happiness that is also pleasing choreographically."
Web links
- The dancing heart in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The dancing heart at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gertrud Kückelmann. Retrieved April 30, 2019 .
- ↑ Quoted from: Andrea Niederfriniger: Das tanzende Herz. In: Filmreporter.de. August 11, 2018, accessed April 30, 2019 .