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Film still from TOP HAT. Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire in festive attire at a ball.

Fri 11.03.
19:00

  • Director

    Mark Sandrich

  • USA / 1935
    101 min. / 35 mm / Original version

  • with

    With Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton

  • Original language

    English

  • Preserved by the Library of Congress

  • Cinema

    Arsenal 1

    zu den Ticketszu dem Kalender

"Cheek to Cheek" (music: Irving Berlin) is one of the most famous and beautiful Rogers & Astaire dance numbers and without a doubt the pivotal point of the film: hypnotic minutes of seemingly effortless floating and of the organic interaction of two dancers. Yet, the film begins with Astaire virtually "footloose" and a nighttime tour-de-force ("No Strings") tap dance that robs Rogers of sleep. Her complaint to the hotel manager is the beginning of an amusing farce of mistaken identity that quickly shifts from rainy London to Venice, or rather to an absurdly stylized confectioner's studio version of the lagoon city. Here, Rogers and Astaire navigate their way through a multitude of misunderstandings, continuously encouraged by four glorious comic sidekicks (Edward Everett Horton, Helen Broderick, Eric Blore and Eric Rhodes). (mg)

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