Germaine Damar - The dancing star

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Movie
Original title Germaine Damar - The dancing star
Country of production Luxembourg
original language German
Publishing year 2011
length 60 minutes
Rod
Director Michael Wenk
script Michael Wenk
production Joy Hoffmann
music André Dziezuk
camera Graham Johnston ,
Jeff Kieffer ,
Jerzy Palacz ,
Thomas Wittmann
cut Claude Grosch

The documentary Germaine Damar - The dancing star by Michael Wenk portrays the Luxembourg-born actress and dancer who was one of the stars of German-language revue film in the 1950s and early 1960s. The world premiere of the documentary took place on June 14, 2011 in the presence of Germaine Damar and director Michael Wenk in the Luxembourg cinema Utopia. The production was released on DVD in Luxembourg in November 2011, published by the national Center national de l'audiovisuel (CNA).

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In the 60-minute documentary, Germaine Damar looks back on her eventful life: on her youth in Pétange in Luxembourg and in Paris , her first appearances as a member of an artist trio and her fairytale film career, during which she shot 28 cinema productions. Like few actresses in the German-language entertainment cinema of the post-war period, the trained artist and dancer - with a few exceptions - is completely committed to the genre of the revue film. The documentation is therefore also dedicated to the characteristics of this genre, thematizing the production conditions at the time and the decline of the revue film in the early 1960s. The focus of the portrait is Germaine Damar's collaboration with audience favorites such as Peter Alexander , Heinz Erhardt or Georg Thomalla . Numerous film clips and photo documents, some of which were published for the first time, illustrate the life and career of the actress, who also appeared in front of the camera in France, Spain and Argentina. In addition, there are statements from fellow actors such as Sonja Ziemann , Joachim Fuchsberger , Walter Giller , Claus Biederstaedt , Peter Weck , Maria Sebaldt and Chris Howland . Also remember: The film director Hermann Leitner and Geneviève Hellen-Haeck, the sister and former stage partner of Germaine Damar. Désirée Nosbusch gives the commentary for the film .

Reviews

  • "In his extremely amusing and very informative documentary" Der tanzende Stern "Michael Wenk tells of the fairytale career of the native Luxemburg." Gabrielle Seil, Revue
  • “Wenk asks questions: How was the Luxembourg dancer Germaine Haeck built up by the West German film industry as a young actress and ultimately into a mass idol Germaine Damar? And what does your success have to do with the genre of the revue film? ”Daniel Conrad, Luxemburger Wort
  • "Wenk's documentation uses film excerpts and discussions with a theater scholar and former colleagues such as Joachim Fuchsberger, Walter Giller, Claus Biederstaedt, Maria Sebaldt, Sonja Ziemann and the director Hermann Leitner to give a coherent impression of the goals and production conditions of the revue film in the economic boom." Roland Mörchen, film service
  • "Many film clips and previously unpublished photos make the work an impressive documentary." François Besch, Tageblatt
  • "Michael Wenk made this lively documentary" Germaine Damar - The dancing star ". In any case, this DVD should not be missing in any collection. ”Christian Spielmann, Lëtzebuerger Journal
  • "Michael Wenk compile un nombre impressionnant d'entretiens avec les anciens collègues de Germaine Damar, qui sont aujourd'hui octogénaires (d'ailleurs Walter Giller vient juste de mourir)." Josée Hansen, d'Lëtzebuerger Land
  • "Through film excerpts and discussions (mostly with former colleagues) a coherent impression of the goals and production conditions of the revue film in the economic boom is conveyed." Lexicon of international film

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Germaine Damar - The dancing star. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 3, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used