Seventh Heaven
Still with Hasse Ekman and Sickan Carlsson
Directed byHasse Ekman
Written byHasse Ekman
Produced byAllan Ekelund
StarringSickan Carlsson
Hasse Ekman
Gunnar Björnstrand
CinematographyÅke Dahlqvist
Edited byOscar Rosander
Music byJerry Högstedt
Production
company
Distributed bySvensk Filmindustri
Release date
  • 11 June 1956 (1956-06-11)
Running time
92 minutes
CountrySweden
LanguageSwedish

Seventh Heaven (Swedish: Sjunde himlen) is a 1956 Swedish comedy film directed by Hasse Ekman and starring Sickan Carlsson, Ekman and Gunnar Björnstrand.[1][2] It was shot at the Råsunda Studios in Stockholm. The film's sets were designed by the art director P.A. Lundgren. It was followed by a sequel Heaven and Pancake in 1959.

Plot summary

Willy Lorens is a successful radio idol with the hit series "Seventh Heaven". But the amount of fan mail and attention eventually becomes too much for Lorens, who suffers a minor collapse. He is taken to hospital where he meets Dr. Lovisa Sundelius, virtually the only woman in Sweden who does not admire the radio idol. In fact she despises him.

Since the program still has to air, according to the radio company, Lorens gets a vitamin injection and gets to broadcast the program from his hospital bed. Dr. Sundelius checks upon her patient, and to help him she improvise a part in the show, but does it too wildly. The next day, the newspapers headlines write about the embarrassing blunder.

To get away from it all, Willy Lorens buys a bus ticket for a trip through Europe with Italy as the destination, but it just so happens that Lovisa Sundelius also has a ticket for that same bus ride. Along for the ride is also Lovisa Sundelius' incredibly dull fiancé...

Cast

References

  1. ↑ Qvist & Von Bagh p.70
  2. ↑ Nordic National Cinemas p.187

Bibliography

  • Iverson, Gunnar, Soderbergh Widding, Astrid & Soila, Tytti. Nordic National Cinemas. Routledge, 2005.
  • Qvist, Per Olov & von Bagh, Peter. Guide to the Cinema of Sweden and Finland. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000.


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