Dream revue

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Movie
Original title Dream revue
Country of production Austria
original language German
Publishing year 1959
length 101 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Eduard von Borsody
script Kurt E. Walter
Eduard von Borsody
production Eduard Hoesch
music Heinz Neubrand
Robert Stolz
camera Hans Heinz Theyer
cut Hermione Diethelm
occupation

Traumrevue is an Austrian ice revue film by Eduard von Borsody from 1959. Waltraut Haas and Teddy Reno are cast in the leading roles, Susi Nicoletti , Michael Kramer , Ursula Herking , Ingrid Wendl , Eva Pawlik and Arno Paulsen in leading roles.

action

The Eisrevue by Anna Reiser is in financial difficulties, out of consideration for her audience, Anna hardly allows any changes in the programs. The new program should finally also be a financial success, so Anna was able to win the Hungarian ice skating star Ilona Karoly as a solo dancer for the show. Meanwhile, the young Elisabeth Müller tries in vain to audition for Anna Reiser. She has already waited at the gatekeeper four times to be admitted. The fourth time she only meets the piano player Tonio Pozzi, who musically supports the figure skaters during rehearsals. She shows him what she can do on the ice, but Tonio doesn't succeed in getting Anna to watch either. Despondent Elisabeth goes home. She learns from the newspaper that Ilona Karoly had to cancel the ice revue because of a car accident. Her landlady, Mrs. Schmitt, persuades Elisabeth to commit a fraud. She should pretend to be Ilona to finally show what she can do. She herself will act as her mother. Inevitably, Elisabeth agrees, even if she wants to admit everything after the trial dance.

Elisabeth and Mrs. Schmitt are duly received at the train station. Tonio immediately recognizes Elisabeth, who is now blonde, but agrees to participate in the short-term dizziness. Elisabeth can convince everyone of her skills in a test run. Although she now wants to reveal who she really is, Tonio keeps her from doing so. In the meantime, the newspapers have already reported Ilona as the new star of the ice revue, so that a discovery of the lie would cause a scandal and the revue would do more harm than good. Elisabeth only wants to reveal her true identity after the premiere of the show, which runs under the name Traumrevue .

The businessman Hugo Liebling, to whom the Eisrevue has high debts, woos Elisabeth. Simply rejecting your invitations is therefore almost impossible. After all, Ms. Schmitt tries to disrupt the meeting between Elisabeth and Liebling as often as possible. During one evening in the restaurant, Mrs. Schmitt drinks too much alcohol and implies that Elisabeth is not Ilona Karoly at all. Darling goes to Hungary without further ado to find out the truth. At the premiere of the dream revue he appears with the real Ilona Karoly. She is initially outraged that someone appears under her name, but then realizes Elisabeth's talent. During the break, Liebling makes the hoax in front of director Anna Reiser public. Ilona, ​​however, forgives Elisabeth, especially since she often wanted to reveal her true identity, but was always prevented by Tonio. To save the show, the real Ilona Karoly appears in a solo after the break. Ilona and Elisabeth will then contest the finale of the show in perfect harmony.

production

Production notes

Traumrevue is based on an idea by Edith Petter . The Wiener Eisrevue appears in the film . You can see Ingrid Wendl ( European Champion 1958 ) as herself, Eva Pawlik ( European Champion 1949 ) as Ilona Karoly and Hanna Eigel ( European Champion 1957 ). The ice revue scenes were directed by Will Petter , the choreography by Edith Petter.

Teddy Reno (* 1926) sings the songs My Happiness , No Jazz , Ti Diro and Fascination in the film . The costumes created Gerdago that Filmbauten come from Willy treasure and Hans Zehetner .

Double role and double

A special feature of the film is that the Olympic runner-up from 1948 and European champion from 1949, Eva Pawlik, plays a dual role in art skating: On the one hand, Pawlik is the double on the ice for Waltraut Haas, on the other hand she runs - in accordance with her acting role in the framework story - as Ilona Karoly performed the freestyle to Marchetti's music "Fascination" and opened the Danube Waltz with Rudi Seeliger at the end of the film, before the ballet and all its soloists appeared.

publication

The film had its premiere on September 25, 1959 in Nuremberg and was also shown in GDR cinemas on September 30, 1960 . On December 25, 1964, the film was shown on DFF 1 on East German television.

The film was also shown for the first time in Austria on September 25, 1959, in the USA under the title Dream Revue in 1961, in Hungary in June 1961, in Mexico in October 1963 and in Canada (in Calgary and Alberta) in December 1968 The film was also released in Brazil, Czechoslovakia, Portugal and Spain.

criticism

At Blue Monday , 16th November 1959 states: "In Borsodys color film shines primarily our ice show with their soloists, led by the musically inspired Eva Pawlik, the spirited Emmy Puzinger, the youthful Ingrid Wendl and their partners. Here the famous sporting skills of our ice artists celebrate their triumphs. The revue scenes with the ballet live up to the title. Susi Nicoletti's indestructible playful mood, confident and amusing, knots the often frighteningly thin, long storyline again and again, the sometimes lively, sometimes hot music (pride and new brand) and Teddy Reno's hit songs are pretty. "

In the world on Monday , November 16, 1959, one could read: “'Traumrevue', the youngest film of the Wiener Eisrevue, was shown in cinemas in Vienna last weekend. As in German cities, the film was well received at home, people liked to ignore some of the book's weaknesses and enjoyed the clean technical work, the excellent play of the main actors, who this time also include two stars of the revue themselves, the Excellent playing Eva Pawlik and Ingrid Wendl, who has to play herself. "

For the film-dienst , Traumrevue was an “undemanding, entertaining revue film […], knitted according to well-known patterns, but at least with considerable dance performances.” The film papers called the film an “entertaining revue cocktail”.

The Berliner Zeitung found that "this film event [...] has been known since the invention of cinematography", even if "the viewer is constantly cheered up and down with film-lengthening jokes that the theater has been using for around 2000 years." The film's plot is "fantastically simple-minded ...". In the film "the famous Viennese ice ballet enchants with temperament, grace and grace", however, found the New Age .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Roman Seeliger, Die Wiener Eisrevue. A dream faded away. Chapter dream revue. ISBN 3-7004-0680-0
  2. ↑ Bernhard Hachleitner / Isabella Lechner (eds.), Traumfabrik on ice. From Wiener Eisrevue to Holiday On Ice. Chapter 'Celebrities double celebrities ", p. 119 ff. Metroverlag Vienna 2014. ISBN 978-3-99300-194-0
  3. ^ Roman Seeliger, Die Wiener Eisrevue. Once Austria's ambassador - today a legend. District Museum Vienna Meidling 2008
  4. ↑ The Wiener Eisrevue and its biggest star Eva Pawlik (article by Manuela Buyny) In: Pirouette (international magazine for ice sports and roller sports) July / August 2013 edition
  5. ↑ pirouette (international magazine for ice sports and roller sports) July / August 2007 issue, memories of Eva Pawlik. Pages 37-38
  6. ^ Isabella Lechner, Die Wiener Eisrevue. Diploma thesis University of Vienna, 2008
  7. ↑ Agnes Meisinger, 150 Years of the Ice Age. The great history of the Vienna Ice Skating Club. ISBN 978-3-205-20149-6
  8. ↑ Dream Revue. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  9. ↑ Critique of the film sheets on Traumrevue . Quoted from: Traumrevue . In: Manfred Hobsch: love, dance and 1000 hit films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1998, p. 152.
  10. ↑ G. Sobe: An Austrian dream revue or The abuse of good taste . In: Berliner Zeitung , October 2, 1960, p. 6.
  11. ^ Neue Zeit , October 5, 1960, p. 6.