Dancing stars

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Movie
Original title Dancing stars
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1952
length 94 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Géza from Cziffra
script Géza from Cziffra
production Arion-Film GmbH, Hamburg
(Géza von Cziffra)
music Michael Jary
camera Georg Bruckbauer
cut Alice Ludwig-Rasch
occupation

Tanzende Sterne is the title of a German music film from 1952 directed by Géza von Cziffra . The main roles are cast with Fita Benkhoff , Germaine Damar , Axel von Ambesser and Georg Thomalla . The film had its world premiere on November 27, 1952 in Hanover .

action

Nicolle Ferrar is the owner of the nightspot "Schiefe Laterne". She loses it due to her frivolous behavior and flees from her creditors to the Riviera. There lives the rich and attractive racing team owner Sir Thomas Gregorian, whom she can win for herself. However, this does not meet with approval from his family. The family considers Nicolle to be an inheritance stalker and is also worried about her inheritance, should the two of them marry. So the decision is made to send Thomas' son Bob Gregorian to the “Schiefe Laterne” bar so that he can get a good look at Nicolle. In the "Leaning Lantern" Bob meets Nicolle Ferrar's daughter, who bears the same name as her mother. Young Nicolle hangs out at the nightclub and has stayed. Bob now assumes that the young Nicolle is identical to the woman the family considers a threat. Much to the displeasure of his fiancée Daisy, Bob falls in love with the young woman. Together they try to make the "Leaning Lantern" a success again. Bob Gregorian experiences that the new world with music and dance brings him a lot of fun. His fiancée Daisy, who followed him, also succumbs to the charm of the “Leaning Lantern” and appears there as a dancer. Daisy's mother, however, does not agree with the way things are developing and causes unrest.

When Sir Thomas Gregorian appears and quickly sees through the situation, he first makes fun of duping his family and pretends to be madly jealous of his own son. At the height of the turbulence, however, he introduces his family to Nicolles' mother, with whom he wants to go to the altar as soon as possible. He gives his son his blessing on his connection with the young Nicolle. And with the “Leaning Lantern” things are finally going uphill, which is being celebrated with an impressive gala.

background

It is an Arion film distributed by Herzog-Film GmbH (from 1958 UFA -Filmverleih GmbH). Géza von Cziffra was a co-founder of Arion-Film GmbH in Hamburg. The film was shot in the Real Film Studios in Hamburg-Tonndorf . The exterior shots were taken in Travemünde . Herbert Kirchhoff and Albrecht Becker were responsible for the buildings . The production line was Peter Paul germinate and Otto Meissner .

The choreography of the music film was done by Jens Keith . The music comes from Michael Jary , who also conducted. The Philharmonic Film Orchestra played under his direction with the soloists Macky Kasper : trumpet , Günter Fuhlisch : trombone , Rolf Kühn : clarinet . Lyrics: Bruno Balz . The revue part also included: Liselotte Köster , Jockel Stahl , Edward Lane, El Mario and Helmut Ketels , all of them dancers. Also performing: Rosyana et Larau, the Original Hiller Girls , El Mario, the Montez Ballet, the Sunshine Quartet and the Cornel Trio.

Among other things, the following pieces of music can be heard:

  • You shouldn't always watch my mouth! (Carioca)
  • The breakdown with Susanne (One-Step-Samba)
  • Mäcki Boogie (Boogie-Woogie)
  • Oh, Mr. Kuhn ... (Mexican foxtrot)
  • Farewell, you black rose ... (Hawaii-Waltz)
  • Virginia Blues
  • bolero

It was the first role in a film for Germaine Damar from Luxembourg . Although there were votes against her test recordings, Géza von Cziffra did not want to do without such a talented dancer for his film. She changed her name Germaine Haeck for the film to Germaine Damar and was then considered a French dancer in the press for a long time. The film opened the door for Germaine Damar to another 28 films, including her best-known The Legs of Dolores , which also became a huge hit in Argentina. Germaine Damar was in a relationship with the partner of her first film Georg Thomalla for some time .

Reviews

For the lexicon of international film , the film offered no surprises, which was reflected in a rather negative judgment, which read as follows:

“Mother and daughter from a nightspot business - just like father and son from English aristocracy - are mixed up crosswise until the right couples can be found. A template comedy that is characteristic of the low-quality revue films of the 1950s: richly equipped, eager to dance and melodious - but without any joke. "

- Lexicon of international film

The critic Gert Gantzer also roughly agreed with this judgment in the magazine Star No. 1/1953, p. 9: “My personal view ... on the subject of ' dancing stars ' can actually only be explained with the word' From Alt do new 'outline. Such clothes from the bottom drawer of outdated humor (pardon the arrogant word) didn't necessarily have to be filmed. Simple scenes are conciliatory, even good - but the bulk of the spent celluloid was used for silliness, whistled the grandfather already in felt slippers. Michael Jary's music can't change that, as sentimentally as it tries to grab the moviegoer at the end. It's a shame about Fita Benkhoff, Axel von Ambesser and Georg Thomalla. "

The contemporary film press praised the still unknown Germaine Damar: "She can play and dance and is also a lovely, graceful, youthful person."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alfred Bauer: German feature film Almanach. Volume 2: 1946-1955 , pp. 295 f.
  2. Jump up ↑ Dancing Stars. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ Tanzende Sterne - Review in the magazine Star No. 1/1953, p. 9
  4. ↑ Manfred Hobsch: Love, Dance and 1000 Schlagerfilme , 1998, p. 117