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.
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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
Sickan Carlsson as Lovisa Sundelius, doctor
Hasse Ekman as Willy "Etershejken" Lorens, radio show host
Gunnar Björnstrand as squadron-leader Ernst C:son Kruuse, Lovisas fiancé
Stig Järrel as Sture Turesson, radio producer
Sigge Fürst as radio writer
Inga Gill as Miss Jonasson, singer
Torsten Winge as Torsten Tidström, watchmaker
Gunnar Sjöberg as father Bernhard Svanström, priest
Bellan Roos as Inez, Lovisas housekeeper
Doreen Denning as Lisa Brattström, travel guide
Solveig Svensson as Miss Jonasson, singer
Ulla-Britt Svensson as Miss Jonasson, singer
Alexander von Baumgarten as Nattklubbsägare
Gunnel Wadner as Sjuksyster
Astrid Bodin as Beundrarinna
Helga Brofeldt as Beundrarinna
Elsa Ebbesen as Översköterskan
Lars Egge as Svenske ambassadören
Siv Ericks as Lovisas patient
Mona Geijer-Falkner as Beundrarinna
Erna Groth as Blenda från Kujala
Lars Kåge as Liljekvist
Stig Olin as Berättarröst
John Melin as Ballongförsäljare
Hanny Schedin as Fru Andersson
Agda Helin as Beundrarinna