Seventh Heaven (1956 film)

Seventh Heaven
Still with Hasse Ekman and Sickan Carlsson
Directed by Hasse Ekman
Written by Hasse Ekman
Produced by Allan Ekelund
Starring Sickan Carlsson
Hasse Ekman
Gunnar Björnstrand
Cinematography Åke Dahlqvist
Edited by Oscar Rosander
Music by Jerry Högstedt
Production
company
Distributed by Svensk Filmindustri
Release date
  • 11 June 1956
Running time
 92 minutes
Country Sweden
Language Swedish

Seventh Heaven (Swedish: Sjunde himlen) is a 1956 Swedish comedy film directed by Hasse Ekman and starring Sickan Carlsson, Ekman and Gunnar Björnstrand. 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...

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