The big freestyle
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The big freestyle |
| Country of production | Federal Republic of Germany , Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1964 |
| length | 99 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director | Franz Antel |
| script | Kurt Nachmann |
| production | Team film ( Gero Wecker ), Wiener Stadthalle |
| music | Erwin Halletz |
| camera | Siegfried Hold |
| cut | Arnfried Heyne |
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The big freestyle is a German-Austrian ice revue film by Franz Antel from 1964 . It was the first film by the figure skating couple Marika Kilius and Hans-Jürgen Bäumler .
action
After the successful world championship, Marika Kilius and Hans-Jürgen Bäumler want to go on a show tour. So far, however, you have not signed one of the ice revues and managers Eberhard Traugott and Tommy Toifel are vying for the two stars. Marika is also ensnared by racing driver Jonny, who gives her, much to the displeasure of Hans-Jürgen Rosen. Hans-Jürgen has loved Marika for a long time, but has never told her. When he spontaneously procured roses for her during the night with the help of the photo reporter Peter, no one was there after his return to the bar. He is disappointed. Marika spends the night with Jonny, her foster mother Doris and the journalist Helga. Tommy Toifel succeeds in getting Doris drunk. However, Eberhard Traugott, whose management contract signed for Marika Doris, took advantage of the hour. Out of jealousy of Jonny, who never leaves Marika, Hans-Jürgen now chooses Tommy as manager.
Under Jonny's influence, Marika began to dream of a world away from the ice and followed him to Villars. She doesn't know that he only has one goal: to appear in his mother's American ice cream show and pull Hans-Jürgen along. Mrs. King, Jonny's mother, instructs journalist Helga to win over Hans-Jürgen for the American review. Helga has to go to Vienna anyway to bring Lumpi the dachshund to Hans-Jürgen. Since the dog belongs to both skaters, everyone has it with them for a set period of time. In Vienna, Helga tries to get Tommy on her side. In the meantime, Hans-Jürgen looks at the rehearsals of the Vienna Ice Revue. He takes a liking to the ice dancer Jane. When he also had to read in the press that Marika had become engaged to Jonny - everything was based on a misunderstanding due to Doris' loquacity - he signed up for the Wiener Eisrevue. In return, Maria accepts an engagement with the American ice revue. Both have trouble harmonizing with their respective partners.
Jonny wants to get Marika away from figure skating and prefer to bring it out as a singer. He invites her to go on vacation to St. Tropez , but she refuses. She'd rather take Lumpi to Vienna. Here she first finds photos that show Hans-Jürgen with Jane, and later sees them both in a pub. She leaves disappointed and misses the way Hans-Jürgen separates from Jane in order to be able to concentrate on his career. The old Franz Haslinger, with whom Hans-Jürgen lives, has long since recognized that Hans-Jürgen and Marika love each other. He hides Lumpi and puts an advertisement for the dog in the newspaper. Marika is in a state of excitement and photographer Peter and journalist Helga decide to find Lumpi again and thus save the relationship between the skating couple. In doing so, they also come closer to each other. The former figure skater Franz Haslinger found his former partner and lover in Mrs. King. Eberhard Traugott and Tommy Toifel also recognize that all problems would be solved if they got together and formed a common company. The premiere of the Wiener Eisrevue begins under these conditions, of which Hans-Jürgen has no idea. Hans-Jürgen is undecided whether he should even appear when Peter and Helga secretly smuggle Lumpi into his cloakroom. He brought the skates with him so that Hans-Jürgen finally appears in the revue. In the end, his partner is none other than Marika Kilius and Hans-Jürgen is happy. Finally, in the audience there are also the couples: Peter and Helga, Franz and Mrs. King and, on a business level, Eberhard and Traugott.
production
The great freestyle emerged after the 1964 Winter Olympics and the 1964 World Figure Skating Championships , at which Marika Kilius and Hans-Jürgen Bäumler won a silver medal and gold respectively.
Franz Antel hoped to build on the success of his first ice skating film Symphony in Gold through the unusual popularity of this couple . Screenplay talks took place in March 1964, with both leading actors being given extensive say. The script therefore had to be rewritten several times, among other things to prevent the racing driver Jonny from resembling Marika Kilius' fiancé at the time, whom Kilius married before the film premiere in the summer.
In the Wiener Stadthalle, an oversized ice rink of 52 × 38 meters was built especially for the film. The film was shot in the Wiener Stadthalle as well as in St. Tropez and at the Palace Hotel Villars near Montreux . Gerdago created the costumes and Horst Hennicke designed the film .
Even before the film premiere, Marika Kilius publicly married Werner Zahn, and Kilius / Bäumler was also deprived of the Olympic silver medal because they had violated amateur status by concluding a film contract (rehabilitated in 1967).
The film premiered on October 6, 1964 in Munich's Gloria-Palast and was a great success despite the bad omens.
You can see the ensemble of the Wiener Eisrevue under the artistic direction of Will and Edith Petter. Willy Dirtl and the ballet of the Vienna State Opera dance . In addition, the flamenco dancer Pedro di Cordoba can be seen with a number.
The film features numerous songs that were recorded by the Monte Carlo Light Orchestra and the Max Greger Orchestra :
- Marika Kilius: cavalier, cavalier
- Marika Kilius: I'm not an Eskimo
- Hans-Jürgen Bäumler, Marika Kilius: Honey-Moon in St. Tropez
- Peter Kraus: Kisses in the Night
- Harry Peters : In the evening when the stars wander
- Mauren Renee : The thought alone
- Liverpool Boys: Yeah, yeah, yeah ( Beatles parody)
- Chorus and The Five Brutos (= I Brutos): Salomé; Addio, addio
criticism
“Dream factory with pompous revue scenes and a lot of emotional kitsch in sound and images,” wrote the film service .
Award
For more than 3 million cinema viewers in 18 months, The Great Freestyle received the Golden Screen in 1965 .
Web links
- The great freestyle in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The big freestyle at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Great freestyle . In: Der Spiegel , No. 30. 1964, p. 65.
- ^ Franz Antel: Twisted, in love, my life , Munich, Vienna 2001, p. 156
- ↑ The great freestyle. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .