The tango queen
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The tango queen |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1913 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Max Mack |
| production | Jules Greenbaum |
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The Tango Queen is a German silent film fun game about Argentine dance with Hanni Weisse in the title role. Directed by Max Mack .
action
One day the handsome Ferdinand reads in the newspaper about a competition that was advertised. The aim is to find the person who can best perform the Argentine fashion dance tango. His cheeky girlfriend Mie would be ideal as a partner, but when practicing Ferdinand is so disappointed with what he thinks is her lack of talent that it leads to a serious rift. Any shop girl can dance better than she, he throws at her head. One day Ferdinand saw a young girl on the street in a backyard dancing with great grace and grace to the sounds of an organ organ and was delighted. The little girl's name is Hanni, and she should definitely become his tango partner! After Ferdinand has completely re-dressed the girl, he organizes a tango teacher named Schüftan, who is supposed to give Hanni the finishing touches.
Mie, still mad at her Ferdinand, has taken her second friend Lulu and ordered him to take part in this tango dance competition with her too. He, too, a handsome lieutenant who knows how to move on parade marches much better, should learn to dance the tango at Schüftan. But Lulu has no talent, and so Mie succeeds in persuading the dance teacher to become her dance partner in the competition herself. On the day of the finals, Hanni had a mishap: she left the ticket in a car and was initially not allowed into the dance hall. In the clothes of a delivery boy she still smuggles in and after swapping clothes she can finally start dancing. Mie and Schüftan dance divinely, but Hanni recognizes her dance teacher in him, and as professionals they are not allowed to take part in such competitions. Hanni teases the cheat at the jury and ends up becoming the Tango Queen!
Production notes
The Tango Queen , also under the notation , the Tango Queen out, was built in the fall of 1913 in Vitascope studio in Berlin Lindenstraße 32-34 Berlin-Marie Felde , had three acts and passed in November 1913, the film censorship. The world premiere took place on November 28th or December 5th, 1913, depending on the source.
Historical background
The Tango Queen is one of several German (e.g. Tango fever with Ernst Matray and Tangozauber with Danny Kaden ) and international films that discovered tango as a film theme in 1913 . Argentine dance conquered Germany everywhere this year. The tango mania even went so far that on November 20, 1913 , Kaiser Wilhelm II issued a decree forbidding his soldiers to dance the tango.
criticism
“One of the funniest and most exuberant film actresses, Hanny [sic!] Weisse… was induced by Vitascope to let her delightful legs hop over the screen in a funny farce. (...) The piece offers great entertainment. The tango queen is really like a king. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tango ban by Wilhelm II on wdr.de
- ↑ No Tango for Officers on spiegel.de
- ↑ Cinematographische Rundschau of November 23, 1913. P. 110