Seven Slaps

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Seven Slaps
Seven Slaps.jpg
Directed by Paul Martin
Written by
Based onHét pofon (novel)
by Károly Aszlányi
Produced by Max Pfeiffer
Starring
Cinematography Konstantin Irmen-Tschet
Edited by Carl Otto Bartning
Music by Kurt Schröder
Production
company
UFA
Distributed byUFA
Release date
3 August 1937
Running time
97 minutes
CountryGermany
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 .

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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.

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  1. Rentschler p.118

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