Tango fever
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Tango fever |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1913 |
| length | at 16 fps approx. 34 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Carl Wilhelm |
| script | Edmund Edel |
| production | Paul Davidson for PAGU |
| camera | Friedrich Weinmann |
| occupation | |
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Tangofieber is a German dance silent film from 1913 by Carl Wilhelm .
action
The plot of the film is completely subordinate to the dance-like, sometimes acrobatic interludes, which are the focus of the story. It is told, with humorous undertones, how the tango dance spills from Argentina to Germany and, like a mania, affects all social circles in Berlin. In addition to the actors, a professional dance couple also shows their mastery in tango dance. "How the fever expresses itself in its individual stages is difficult to recount in the funny film."
Production notes
Tango fever passed film censorship in November 1913 and had its world premiere on November 28, 1913 in the UT in Berlin-Schöneberg . The film was two acts long and measured 631 meters.
background
Tango fever is one of several German (e.g. "Tangozauber" with Danny Kaden and " Die Tango-Königin " with Hanni Weisse ) 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.
According to GECD (# 9425), the band of the Pilsen- born violinist Ladislaus Löwenthal plays a role in the film, which played "Palais de Danse" at the opening of the Berlin ballroom in 1910, where scenes from the film were shot, and from 1911 in the neighboring wine restaurant "Pavillon Mascotte “Was engaged.
Reviews
“The sensation in the film is Ernst Matray, who achieves incredible acrobatics in tango fever. Such jumping skills are unlikely to have been seen before. They don't let a moment of the taking trick arise. The tango dancers W. Roy and Madame Alice, then Lissi Krüger, offer splendid performances of exuberant film humor. The recordings in Berlin's “Palais de Danse” are original and full of a turbulent atmosphere. "
Vienna's Neue Freie Presse wrote on December 28, 1913: "With this film, the cinema stage continues on a new path, the same path that the Possentheater has always followed with success when it comes to the hustle and bustle around us, our weaknesses and whims In the film "Tango Fever" the tangomania of our day is a little glossed over, portrayed in joke and satire, how this strange tango epidemic, which is reminiscent of the dance madness of the Middle Ages, suddenly seizes everyone and turns them into a great row of tango rings , turns the world upside down and puts the legs of everyone involved in circular motions. It was not forgotten to also depict the beauty of tango by playing the main role of a pair of dancers who have won awards at international dance tournaments. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cinematographische Rundschau of December 7, 1913, p. 101
- ↑ Tango ban by Wilhelm II on wdr.de
- ↑ No Tango for Officers on spiegel.de
- ↑ Tango Fever (1913) . earlycinema.dch.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de. Retrieved December 3, 2019.
- ↑ Photo postcard depicting the 11-piece Salon-Orchester Löwental, at zvab.com (accessed on October 16, 2019); on the two locations that were housed in the Metropol-Palast at Behrensstrasse 53-54, cf. grammophon-platten.de .
- ↑ "Tango Fever". In: Neue Freie Presse , December 28, 1913, p. 25 (online at ANNO ).