Seven slaps

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Movie
Original title Seven slaps
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1937
length 98 minutes
Rod
Director Paul Martin
script Paul Martin
Curt Goetz (dialogues)
production Max Pfeiffer
music Friedrich Schröder
camera Konstantin Irmen-Tschet
cut Carl Otto Bartning
occupation

Seven Face Slaps is a German screwball comedy by Universum Film from 1937, which premiered on August 3, 1937 at the Gloria Palast in Berlin.

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William Tenson MacPhab has lost all of his stake on the stock exchange with shares in the steel magnate Astor Terbanks from London and holds Terbanks personally responsible for this damage. He wants to confront him and gains access to Terbanks' office by pretending to be his son in the anteroom. When Terbanks learns that Tenson has not lost a large fortune, but only seven pounds, he lets the small shareholder outside the door. But Tenson does not put up with this treatment. The next day he announced in a newspaper that he would give Terbanks a slap every day for the next few days - one for each of the seven pounds lost. In fact, in the following days, Tenson managed to slap his opponent every day. This happens in the most impossible and unexpected situations and with increasing sympathy and glee from the press and the public. Terbanks' daughter Daisy wants to end this in their eyes unworthy spectacle and pretends to be an admirer of Tenson in order to meet him and dissuade him from his plan. It is quickly seen through and there are more slaps in the face for Terbanks. Even a detective, several bodyguards and a quick-change artist hired as a terbank double cannot prevent this. At the same time, the beginning of a romance between Daisy and William Tenson appears. Daisy eventually lures William away from London and into Scotland. She hopes to be able to prevent the final seventh slap in the face due to the great distance. At the same time, Terbanks holed up in the vault of his company. But the shrewd Tenson has a plan. He wants to be married to Daisy in Gretna Green according to old tradition by the village blacksmith and has let Terbanks know about this. Because the latter rushes to Scotland immediately to prevent the wedding, he involuntarily fetches the seventh slap in the face himself from Gretna Green's village smithy. Terbanks is now defeated and agrees when William Tenson asks for Daisy's hand. The two will be married on site.

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Seven Slaps is a film in the style of the then popular screwball comedies from Hollywood. The film is based on the great popularity of Willy Fritsch and Lilian Harvey, who stood in front of the camera between 1930 and 1939 as the dream couple in German cinema for numerous successful sound films . The film was based on the novel of the same name by the Hungarian writer Károly Aszlányi from 1934. The dialogues written by Curt Goetz , which are characterized by lightness and great pun, are decisive for the high entertainment factor of the plot . For the film, the two hits I dance with you into heaven and Chinamann were composed, which Willy Fritsch and Lilian Harvey sang in a duet and released on record. In the film itself, however, they are not performed vocal, but only used in an instrumental version.

The film is set in London, but it is mostly a studio production. The film structures come from Otto Hunte . The winter outdoor scenes set in Scotland were filmed in Reit im Winkl .

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  • I dance with you to heaven
  • Chinaman

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