Seven Slaps
Seven Slaps | |
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Directed by | Paul Martin |
Written by |
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Based on | Hét pofon (novel) by |
Produced by | Max Pfeiffer |
Starring | |
Cinematography | Konstantin Irmen-Tschet |
Edited by | Carl Otto Bartning |
Music by | Kurt Schröder |
Production company | UFA |
Distributed by | UFA |
Release date | 3 August 1937 |
Running time | 97 minutes |
Country | Germany |
Language | German |
Seven Slaps (German: Sieben Ohrfeigen) is a 1937 German comedy film directed by Paul Martin and starring Lilian Harvey, Willy Fritsch and Alfred Abel. Like the earlier Lucky Kids, which had the same director and stars, it was an attempt to create a German version of screwball comedy. While the previous film had a New York setting, this takes place in London.[1]
The film's sets were designed by Erich Kettelhut.
It was loosely remade in 1970 as Slap in the Face.
Synopsis[]
After he loses some money on the stock exchange a young man seeks revenge on the speculator responsible by slapping him. He intends to slap him once every day for a week as retribution, but things become complicated when he becomes entangled with the speculator's attractive daughter.
Cast[]
- Lilian Harvey as Daisy Terbanks - Astor's Daughter
- Willy Fritsch as William Tenson MacPhab
- Alfred Abel as Astor Terbanks - sein Finanzgewaltiger
- Oskar Sima as Wennington Laskett - Reporter
- Erich Fiedler as Ernie Earl of Wigglebottom
- Ernst Legal as Mr. Strawman
- Otz Tollen as Balthasar Adula Flanelli - Verwandlungskünstler
- Ernst Behmer as Bankangestellter
- Erwin Biegel as Aufgeregter bankkunde
- Erich Dunskus as Schmiedegeselle in Gretna Green
- Max Hiller as 1. Zuschauer beim Fußballspiel
- Horst Birr as Schmiedegeselle in Gretna Green
- as Schutzmann
- Karl Harbacher as Sekretär Charly
- as Butler Leslie
- Rudolf Klicks as 1. Bankdirektor
- F.W. Schröder-Schrom as 2. Bankdirektor
- as 3. Bankdirektor
- Josef Reithofer as Detektiv
- Georg H. Schnell as Dr. Lorenz
- as Chauffeur von Dr. Lorenz
- as Conférencier im Rostigen Nagel
- as Ein Mitarbeiter von Astor Terbanks
- as Ein Gast im Kabarett 'Rostiger Nagel'
- as Ein Zeitung lesendes Klubmitglied
- as 2. Zuschauer beim Fußballspiel
- Gustav Püttjer as 3. Zuschauer beim Fußballspiel
- as Detektiv
- as Starker Mann beim Fußballspiel
- as Büroangestellter
References[]
- ^ Rentschler p.118
Bibliography[]
- Eric Rentschler. The Ministry of Illusion: Nazi Cinema and Its Afterlife. Harvard University Press, 1996.
External links[]
- Seven Slaps at IMDb
- German-language films
- 1930s German film stubs
- 1937 films
- German films
- Films of Nazi Germany
- German comedy films
- 1937 comedy films
- Films directed by Paul Martin
- Films set in London
- UFA GmbH films
- German black-and-white films
- Films based on Hungarian novels