We ask for a dance

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Movie
Original title We ask for a dance
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1941
length 88 minutes
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Director Hubert Marischka
script Fritz Koselka
production Vienna film ( Heinrich Haas )
music Anton Profes
camera Karl Kurzmayer
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We ask for a dance is a German comedy film and a typical Viennese film from 1941.

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Karl Hofeneder is the owner of a renowned Viennese dance school where the daughters and sons of distinguished families take lessons. One day Hofeneder learns that Georges Roublé is opening a dance school in the same district and is competing with him. Twenty-two years ago, Roublé and Hofeneder, friends at the time, had been in love with the same woman. Hofeneder was left behind and has been angry with Roublé ever since. Roublé's daughter, Sylvia, who is not allowed to dance in her father's school due to her poor academic performance, secretly takes lessons from Hofeneder, who doesn't know who Sylvia is. After Sylvia accidentally met the wealthy Alexander Hartenau on the street when he ran away from an arranged engagement, Hartenau - disguised as his own valet - also registered at Hofeneder's dance school in order to get to know Sylvia better.

Roublé invites Hofeneder to his costume party "So tanzt Wien". Before attending this event, Hofeneder accidentally locks Sylvia and Xandl in the school premises when leaving his own dance school. At the costume party, Roublé reconciles with the reluctant Hofeneder. In the middle of the night Hofeneder persuades the already considerably tipsy company to come to his dance school with him. There, the group surprised Sylvia and Xandl. Roublé rages over Hofeneders alleged wickedness; he assumes that Hofeneder consciously arranged the two young people to be together. Hofeneder, for his part, accuses Roublé of having deliberately foisted his daughter on him in order to discredit his dance school.

When Roublé wants to put Sylvia in boarding school, she takes refuge in Hofeneder's apartment and begs him to find Xandl, which Hofeneder reluctantly does. Xandl is supposed to be engaged again against his will. There is a dispute between Hofeneder and the old Count Hartenau, in which Hofeneder tries to prevent Xandl's engagement. When Xandl finds out about this, however, he leaves the party with the consent of his intended fiancé and goes to Hofeneder's apartment, where he finds Sylvia alone. Hofeneder has meanwhile gone to see the desperate Roublé who doesn't know where his daughter is. Both go to Hofeneder's apartment, where the story is cleared up and Xandl asks for Sylvia's hand. The scandal is thus averted; From now on, Roublé and Hofeneder run a joint dance school, and Sylvia and Xandl's engagement is announced at a lavish ball.

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The film is one of the highlights of Hans Moser's work. In it he sings - together with Paul Hörbiger - one of the most beautiful songs he has interpreted: “I have a piece of old Vienna in my heart”, composed by Anton Profes , with the text by Josef Petrak .

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  • "Competition between two dance masters in a dance-filled Vienna that is oozing with sentimentality and" disposition ". Cheap amusement." - 6000 films. Critical notes from the cinema years 1945 to 1958 . Handbook V of the Catholic film criticism, 3rd edition, Verlag Haus Altenberg, Düsseldorf 1963, p. 490
  • "The escape of film producers into the past cannot be overlooked. Vienna is shown again at the turn of the century." - Karlheinz Wendtland in Geliebter Kintopp , born in 1941 and 1942 , Berlin, second edition 1989–1996, ISBN 3-926945-04-4

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