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Alright, this is a remake of an UFA classic. It is predictable. Some scenes are simple, to say the least. The leading girl has no charisma (and I don't like her singing much), and the Olympic star as the male lead is not a great actor. But still, what fun! What songs! What atmosphere! Really nice outdoor and stage scenes. A real feel-good review plus comedy! And some of the greatest comedy stars of Germany at that time - including Oskar Sima, Ernst Stankovski, and the great Heinz Erhard. They all manifestly enjoy acting in this movie. Okay, this is not Almodovar, but nor is life - and if it is, thanks for wonderful entertainment like this, because one needs it even more!

Not one new idea was used for the worn out story format of putting up a show and hence the viewer has to wait long for the finale that contains nicely done ice-revue scenes. The film is directed competently but without inspiration by Von Cziffra; with this film he remade his own Weisse Traum of 1943, but it is no improvement.

It is up to comics Ruth Stephan and Heinz Erhardt to liven things up (and they are good at it); couple Toni Sailer and Ina Bauer are such good skaters that they are even skating over the thin ice when it comes to the love's interest of the story.