Seven Slaps

Seven Slaps
Seven Slaps
Directed by	Paul Martin
Written by	Bobby E. Lüthge; Paul Martin; Curt Goetz;
Based on	Hét pofon (novel); by Károly Aszlányi
Produced by	Max Pfeiffer
Starring	Lilian Harvey; Willy Fritsch; Alfred Abel;
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] It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art director 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
Jac Diehl as Schutzmann
Karl Harbacher as Sekretär Charly
Hanns Waschatko as Butler Leslie
Rudolf Klicks as 1. Bankdirektor
F.W. Schröder-Schrom as 2. Bankdirektor
Otto Stoeckel as 3. Bankdirektor
Josef Reithofer as Detektiv
Georg H. Schnell as Dr. Lorenz
Walter Steinweg as Chauffeur von Dr. Lorenz
Max Wilmsen as Conférencier im Rostigen Nagel
Charles Francois as Ein Mitarbeiter von Astor Terbanks
Paul Ludwig Frey as Ein Gast im Kabarett 'Rostiger Nagel'
Eric Harden as Ein Zeitung lesendes Klubmitglied
Albert Karchow as 2. Zuschauer beim Fußballspiel
Gustav Püttjer as 3. Zuschauer beim Fußballspiel
Paul Schwed as Detektiv
Egon Stief as Starker Mann beim Fußballspiel
Alfred Stratmann 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

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[1] Rentschler p.118

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