If everyone danced how they wanted, well!
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | If everyone danced how they wanted, well! |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1972 |
| length | 26 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Winfried Young |
| script | Winfried Young |
| production | DEFA studio for short films |
| camera | Hans-Eberhard Leupold |
| cut | Ursula Walter |
If everyone danced how they wanted, well! is a documentary film by the DEFA studio for short films by Winfried Junge from 1972.
action
The film presents the ballroom dancing and the beat music in ever-changing film sections over. The pictures from the Glöckner dance school in Berlin's Klosterstrasse accompany young people on their way from the first dance lesson to the prom in the Haus am Köllnischer Park . This class teaches the participants to dance as a rhythmic movement, but the rules of behavior on the dance floor are also an issue. Several participants comment on why they are taking the dance class. Most of them want to learn the basic steps of the different dances in order to know what to do on the dance floor in later life so that not everyone does what they want there. The parents attending the prom all welcome the decision of their children to have completed this education.
A completely different type of music can be heard in the railway workers' club in Berlin-Karlshorst . Here the young people stand in a large cluster in front of the house to be let in while the musicians are still warming up. This is about the beat music, according to which everyone can move according to their feeling on the dance floor, which can also be observed after the entrance. Here, too, the visitors express themselves in interviews about why they prefer this way of dancing. The answers prove that Beat fans don't necessarily have to have straw in their heads.
In its uncommented form, the film examines to what extent these two different types of dance are justified without deciding on dance school or youth dance.
Production and publication
If everyone danced how they wanted, well! was shot as a black and white film by the artistic working group Profil under the working titles youth dance lesson , Auf dem Parett and youth dance . It premiered on October 13, 1972 in the Berlin cinema on the TV tower .
The group that played on stage in the railway workers' club in Berlin-Karlshorst was the Bürkholz formation with their singer Hans-Jürgen Beyer .
Awards
- 1972: 5th Youth Film Week of the GDR: Prize of the Minister for Culture for If everyone would dance how they wanted, well!
Web links
- If everyone danced how they wanted, well! at filmportal.de
- If everyone danced how they wanted, well! on DEFA Foundation
- If everyone danced how they wanted, well! Introduction to the film by Jeanpaul Goergen
Individual evidence
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung of October 13, 1972, p. 10