Katie Fforde: Dance on Broadway

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Movie
Original title Katie Fforde:
Dance on Broadway
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2016
length 89 minutes
Rod
Director Helmut Metzger
script Marcus Hertneck
production Jutta Lieck-Klenke
Sabine Jaspers
Network Movie
music Jens Langbein
Robert Schulte Hemming
camera Nicolay Gutscher
cut Friederike von Normann
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
My son and his fathers

Successor  →
Bella's luck

Tanz auf dem Broadway is a German TV film directed by Helmut Metzger from 2016. It is the 28th film in a ZDF film series with works by British bestselling author Katie Fforde . Minh-Khai Phan-Thi and Thomas Unger play the leading roles.

The film is part of the ZDF Sunday film Herzkino series , which also includes films by Rosamunde Pilcher , Inga Lindström , Nora Roberts , Lilly Schönauer and Utta Danella . These productions are characterized by the fact that they are always shot in particularly beautiful landscapes.

action

The dancer Skye Rhodan, who for years always danced in the front row of successful theater pieces, is dismissed because of her supposedly too old age. Now she is looking for a new project and gets a tip from the choreographer Ryan Lessiter, with whom she once had a relationship, about a casting in the near future. Rhodan hires her neighbor, the widower and father of two Michael Tandsom, to accompany her on the piano, which he masters excellently. As it later turns out, he even composed music for Hollywood films once before his wife died and he had to look after his children by himself.

Since no suitable rehearsal room can be found cheaply and at short notice in New York City, Skye and Michael, who has his children Ella and Liam with them, drive to Skye's adoptive parents Angelika and Walter outside of town, who run a restaurant there. They use a barn next to the restaurant as a space for rehearsals, just as Skye did in her childhood when she often retired to the barn to dance. Sky's adoptive father Walter has severe problems with his shoulder, which is why more and more of his wife gets stuck before she finally suffers a circulatory collapse and has to be hospitalized. Now finally Walter goes to the doctor with his shoulder problems, after he reluctantly hired a temporary cook.

Skye, who lost her parents in a car accident as a little girl, fared much like Michael's children today. She therefore understands well what is going on in Ella and little Liam. They too lost their mother in a car accident. Liam has not spoken a word since then, as did Skye, who was adopted by her birth parents' best friends. Skye's refusal to speak ended when she discovered the barn and dancing for herself.

When finally the casting takes place, in which Skye convinces everyone and seems to trump a well-known competitor despite her "old age" and get the job, she finally decides to end her career as a dancer and start something new professionally. She meets Michael, which is also fully approved by the children, and makes Liam so happy that he begins to speak again.

Publication, audience rating

The film was first broadcast on Sunday, December 11th, 2016, during prime time on ZDF.

This first broadcast was followed by a total of 4.19 million people, which corresponds to a market share of 11.9% of the total audience. Among the younger ones between 14 and 49 years of age it was 5.0%.

criticism

TV Spielfilm pointed a thumb down and wrote: “If you look closely, you will discover that Michael lives above a shop called 'dream in plastic'. We wouldn't have thought the sentimental film full of fake dialogues would have so much self-irony! ”Which led the editors to conclude:“ Welcome to the plastic world! ”

TV Movie gave the film one of three possible points for fun and two for feeling and said: "The pretty standard dance is on the safe side."

Tilmann P. Gangloff, on the other hand, gave the film 3.5 out of 6 possible stars on the tittelbach.tv website and dealt very carefully with the plot of the film. He found that the ZDF series Katie Fforde was "not based on novels by the British writer for a long time", "but the name [...] is still a guarantee of a certain quality". Marcus Hertneck, who wrote the script, tells here "in a sophisticated way about getting older at a young age". “Hertneck cleverly combines the main thread with a multitude of other stories. The surprise of the Herzkino highlight [is] Minh-Khai Phan-Thi, which not only cuts a good figure in the dance scenes. "Director routinier Helmut Metzger, who has shot almost half of the previous Katie Fforde films", "also appropriately implemented Hertneck's stories". The director leads his actors "without exception well", but the performance of the leading actress is still a surprise. In the night shift thrillers, Minh-Khai Phan-Thi "often looks like it is in the wrong film, but here she [is] always credible". Cameraman Nicolay Gutscher shows "not only New York and the Hudson Valley from the most beautiful sides", he has "also made sure that the main character looks extremely attractive". "Phan-Thi cuts an excellent figure" in the dance scenes too.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Primetime check: Sunday, December 11, 2016 (quotenmeter.de, December 12, 2016)
  2. ^ Katie Fforde: Dance on Broadway see page tvspielfil.de. Accessed January 27, 2020 (including film trailer).
  3. ^ Katie Fforde: Dance on Broadway see page tvmovie.de. Retrieved January 20, 2020.
  4. ^ Tilmann P. Gangloff : Series "Katie Fforde - Dance on Broadway". Minh-Khai Phan-Thi, Hertneck, butcher.
    Bend the body, not the heart     see page tittelbach.tv. Retrieved January 27, 2020.