He danced the life
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | He danced the life |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2003 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Kuno Kruse , Marian Czura |
| script | Kuno Kruse |
| production | MTM, arte , mdr |
| music |
Marian Majercyk , Jacek Piskorz |
| camera | Marian Czura |
| cut | Olaf Frackmann |
He danced life is a film by the Polish director Marian Czura , who lives in Darmstadtand who (with the collaboration of TAZ co-founder Kuno Kruse ) accompanied the Jewish flamenco dancer Sylvin Rubinstein with his camera for years. A very impressive film documentary on Rubinstein's poignant fate was created from the collected material.
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He danced life tells the eventful life of the Jewish flamenco dancer Sylvin Rubinstein, who lived in Hamburg St. Pauli until his death in April 2011 and was born near Moscow in 1914. As a child, together with his twin sister Maria Rubinstein, sent by his mother to a renowned prima ballerina in Riga to learn to dance, a few years later the siblings were enthusiastically celebrated as the Flamencoduo Imperio y Dolores in the great variety theaters across Europe.
With Sylvin Rubinstein, the film briefly looks back on this first phase in Rubinstein's life marked by youthful happiness, which has shaped and haunted him to this day.
Germany's attack on Poland on September 1, 1939 surprised the politically uninterested siblings in Warsaw . You were just working there in the famous “Cafe Adria”.
To save their mother, the twins separated after a hasty escape from the ghetto. Maria drove to Brody in what is now the Ukraine to fetch her mother, while Sylvin Rubinstein went to Krakow to get forged passports. You should never see each other again. Desperate about the loss of his neighbor, Rubinstein, now living as Sylvin Turski, contacted the German resistance group around Wehrmacht major Kurt Werner, who was stationed in Krosno , and developed a friendly relationship with him, which, however, turned out to be difficult after the war, because Werner was for Rubinstein as a German belonged to the people responsible for the murder of millions of Jews and their family members. Werner, impressed by Rubinstein's agile manner and his ability to speak several languages, convinced him to fight as a partisan against the Nazis during the World War. One scene in the film, which was still unusual in color for the time, shows Rubinstein dressed as a woman in the market in Krosno. Because he was wanted and persecuted as a resistance fighter in Poland, he moved to Berlin to fight as a partisan against the Nazis with the logistical support of Major Werner and to kill those particularly active in the resistance of SS leaders or in the persecution of Jews.
After the war, in Germany of all places, he turned back to dance and experienced a second heyday of art. But now he no longer appeared as a man ( Imperio ), but became Dolores on stage . In her figure he lives the terrible loss of his sister, pays homage to her and remembers her in the dance.
Until his death, he lived as an old but highly active man in St. Pauli in Hamburg, helped the poor according to his possibilities and had his last dance performance in 2006 in the unforgettable figure of Dolores.
The film accompanies him on his first trips back to the places of his pre-war period, the underground work and the new beginning, to Warsaw, Brody, Krosno and Hamburg.
The film was over the years in cinemas and several times on television ARTE and MDR shown.
Reviews
- FAZ : A fascinating portrait
- Die Welt : Adventure of an Artist and Anti-Fascist Agent - You have to see this film; it shows how much history fits into a human life when it is really lived.
- UAZ: There is hardly a fate that reflects the beautiful and cruel of the past century as impressively as that of Sylvin Rubinstein.
Trivia
The composer Michael Jary , who temporarily lived with Rubinstein after the war, dedicated the song to him in 1951: Only Dolores' legs do that .
literature
- Kuno Kruse: Dolores & Imperio. The three lives of Sylvin Rubinstein . Kiepenheuer & Witsch paperback, Cologne 2003. ISBN 3-462-03335-2 .