Dance in the sun
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Dance in the sun |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1954 |
| length | 94 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Géza from Cziffra |
| script | Géza from Cziffra |
| production |
Otto Meissner , Géza von Cziffra (Arion film) |
| music | Lotar Olias |
| camera | Willy Winterstein |
| cut | Alice Ludwig-Rasch |
| occupation | |
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Tanz in der Sonne is a German feature film directed by Géza von Cziffra from 1954.
action
Twelve dancers from the “Gordon Ballet” want to take a ship from Hamburg to Spain on a major tour, which, as the ladies are only slowly realizing, has burst. The man who signed the contracts is in jail for fraud. The dancers travel to Spain without any cash or commitment. But Biggi and her friend, the solo dancer Ninon, don't give up anytime soon.
Antonio Avilla, a famous singer, dancer and bullfighter, becomes her savior. A few days ago a media hunt started on him, in which theater directors, newspaper reporters, young girls, his jealous fiancée and her brother take part. Meanwhile, Avilla travels unmolested through the country as Pedro's bus chauffeur. He hopes to have made himself unrecognizable through large sunglasses and a cap pulled low over his forehead. He drives the dancers of the Gordon Ballet through Spain with his bus, because he likes the troupe and especially the red-blonde Ninon.
He buys up an abandoned agency, puts together a new tour and lets slip his own engagements. The ballet group, unknown in Spain, is unsuccessful and no theater wants to hire it. Avilla quickly rents an entire bullring, but that's not the breakthrough either. Then theater director Mendoza discovers the similarity between Antonio and Pedro, and a comedy of confusion begins. Pedro has to mime Antonio on stage, while his voice is played back from a record using the playback method. The success comes. But the angry competition ensures that Pedro has to reveal his identity. Ninon is disappointed because she wanted the chauffeur and not the celebrated star. Eventually she is satisfied with the situation and nothing stands in the way of a happy ending.
production
The production took place in the Atelier Hamburg-Wandsbek. The outdoor shots were shot in the Andalusian towns of Vejer de la Frontera , Torremolinos , Ronda , Málaga , Algeciras and in the port of Hamburg . The film was premiered in Germany on October 6, 1954 in Frankfurt am Main. The GDR premiere took place on July 15, 1955.
criticism
The Berliner Zeitung writes that you have to laugh sometimes and that everything can be seen in the celluloid strip that the heart, tormented by the evil of everyday life, longs for. Plus Oskar Sima and Rudolf Platte, who, however, could do more than they should, according to the Revue film role. Horst Knietzsch says in New Germany that this is a revue film without spirit and wit, skilfully made according to the UFA template and with some well-known actors as a box-office magnet, in short, a film like him that is extremely inartistic in his statement produced by the dozen in West Germany in order to lure the money out of the pocket of an uncritical audience. The lexicon of international films describes the film as a remarkably temperamental entertainment film without any ambition except for the solo dancer.
Web links
- Dance in the sun in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Dance in the sun at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung of July 17, 1955
- ^ New Germany of July 16, 1955
- ↑ Dance in the sun. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .