Dessau Dancers
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Dessau Dancers |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2014 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
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| Director | Jan Martin Scharf |
| script | Ruth Toma |
| production | Janna Velber |
| music | Marc Collin |
| camera | Felix Novo de Oliveira |
| cut | Martin Wolf |
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Dessau Dancers is a German film directed by Jan Martin Scharf . The film shows how the breakdance movement became popular in the GDR. It had its world premiere at the Munich Film Festival on June 29, 2014. The cinema release was on April 16, 2015.
action
When 18-year-old Frank saw the film Beat Street in the cinema in the summer of 1985 , he found his new passion: breakdancing . With his friends Matti, Michel and Alex he founded the group “Break Beaters” in Dessau. They dance on the street and quickly advance to the spearhead of the breakdancing movement in the GDR and call on the state security, which likes to keep control over the leisure activities of their youth. Breakdance becomes “acrobatic show dance” and the group is sent through the GDR as a dance group. But fame has its price and Frank realizes that they are being turned into political puppets. He starts to rebel.
criticism
The film service judges that Dessau Dancers is a “sympathetic youth film, credibly staged and told with unspent young actors, which condenses its fictional story into a plea for living out dreams”.
The epd film says that the “hip hopping” is “beautifully staged”. The characters are "rather under-complex, but the incompatibility of individualism and collective, freedom and conformity is so obvious that one is happy that this one time a German film hits the mark so effortlessly and lightly."
Web links
- Official website
- Dessau Dancers in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Dessau Dancers at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of release for Dessau Dancers . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2014 (PDF; test number: 147 697 K).
- ↑ Release Info. Internet Movie Database , accessed February 29, 2016 .
- ^ Gudrun Lukasz-Aden: Dessau Dancers. Filmdienst , 8/2015, accessed on February 29, 2016 (short review).
- ↑ Birgit Roschy: Critique of Dessau Dancers. epd film , March 17, 2015, accessed on March 16, 2016 .