''Seven Years Hard Luck'' (german: Sieben Jahre Pech) is a 1940 German

romantic comedy Romantic comedy (also known as romcom or rom-com) is a subgenre of comedy and slice of life fiction, focusing on lighthearted, humorous plot lines centered on romantic ideas, such as how true love is able to surmount most obstacles. In a typica ...

film directed by

Ernst Marischka Ernst Marischka (2 January 1893 – 12 May 1963) was an Austrian screenwriter and film director. He wrote for more than 90 films between 1913 and 1962. He also directed 29 films between 1915 and 1962. He wrote and directed the Sissi trilogy ...

and starring Hans Moser,

Ida Wüst Ida Wüst (; 10 October 1884 – 4 October 1958) was a German stage and film actress whose career was prominent in the 1920s and 1930s with Universum Film AG (UFA). Life and career Little is known about Ida Wüst's early childhood. She discovere ...

and

Olly Holzmann Olly Holzmann (1915–1995) was an Austrian dancer and film actress.Dassanowsky p.98 During the Second World War years, she appeared in films made by Wien-Film. Selected filmography * ''Hotel Sacher'' (1939) * '' A Mother's Love'' (1939) * ''Woma ...

.Von Dassanowsky p. 101 The film's sets were designed by the art directors

Hans Ledersteger Hans Ledersteger (1898–1971) was an Austrian art director who worked for many years in the German film industry. While mainly employed in Germany, he occasionally also worked in other countries such as Italy and his native Austria including on ...

and Heinrich Richter. The film was produced by the

independent Independent or Independents may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Artist groups * Independents (artist group), a group of modernist painters based in the New Hope, Pennsylvania, area of the United States during the early 1930s * Independ ...

company Styria-Film in German-controlled Austria. It was followed by a sequel ''

Seven Years of Good Luck ''Seven Years of Good Luck'' (german: Sieben Jahre Glück) is a 1942 German comedy film directed by Ernst Marischka and starring Wolf Albach-Retty, Theo Lingen and Hans Moser. It is a sequel to the 1940 film '' Seven Years Hard Luck''.Von Dassano ...

'' in 1942.

Synopsis

After breaking a mirror, a writer is convinced he will have seven years' bad luck. This complicates his romantic aspirations.

Cast

* Hans Moser as Dr. Teisinger *

as Frau Teisinger *

as Gertie *

Ida Turay Ida Turay (Born Ida Turmayer; 28 September 1907 – 2 June 1997) was a Hungarian film actress. She was the sister of the actress and singer Clara Tabody. Selected filmography * ''Prisoner Number Seven'' (1929) * '' The New Relative'' (1934) * ...

as Lilly *

Wolf Albach-Retty Wolf Albach-Retty (born Wolfgang Helmuth Albert Albach; 28 May 1906 – 21 February 1967) was an Austrian actor. He was the father of Romy Schneider with the German actress Magda Schneider. Career Born as Wolfgang Helmuth Albert Albach in Vienna ...

as Heinz Kersten *

Theo Lingen Theo Lingen (; 10 June 1903 – 10 November 1978), born Franz Theodor Schmitz, was a German actor, film director and screenwriter. He appeared in more than 230 films between 1929 and 1978, and directed 21 films between 1936 and 1960. Life and c ...

as Paul, Kerstens Diener *

Oskar Sima Oskar Sima (31 July 1896 – 24 June 1969) was an Austrian actor who is best remembered for appearing in supporting roles in countless comedy films from the 1930s to the 1960s. Born in Hohenau an der March, Lower Austria, Sima attended high sc ...

as Poppelbaum *

Alfred Neugebauer Alfred Neugebauer (24 December 1888 – 14 September 1957) was an Austrian film actor. Selected filmography * '' Money in the Streets'' (1922) * ''Money on the Street'' (1930) * '' Madame Bluebeard'' (1931) * '' Storm in a Water Glass'' (1931) * ...

as Lillys Chef *

Robert Valberg Robert Valberg (28 April 1884 – 15 October 1955) was an Austrian stage and film actor. Selected filmography * '' The Traitress'' (1911) * '' Ivan Koschula'' (1914) * '' The Silent Mill'' (1914) * '' Laugh Bajazzo'' (1915) * '' Money in the Stree ...

as Standesbeamter *

Oskar Wegrostek Oskar may refer to: * oskar (gene), the Drosophila gene * Oskar (given name) Oscar or Oskar is a masculine given name of Irish origin. Etymology The name is derived from two elements in Irish: the first, ''os'', means "deer"; the second element, ' ...

as Dicker Mann * Lina Frank as Wirtschafterin bei Dr. Teisinger *

Eugen Guenther Eugen is a masculine given name which may refer to: * Archduke Eugen of Austria (1863–1954), last Habsburg Grandmaster of the Teutonic Order from 1894 to 1923 * Prince Eugen, Duke of Närke (1865–1947), Swedish painter, art collector, and pat ...

as Freund von Dr. Teisinger * Pepi Glöckner-Kramer as Frau mit dem kranken Kanarienvogel * Johannes Roth as Beamter der Korrespondenzabteilung

References

Bibliography

* Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. ''The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009. * Robert Von Dassanowsky. ''Austrian Cinema''. McFarland & Co, 2005.

External links

* 1940 films 1940 romantic comedy films German romantic comedy films Films of Nazi Germany 1940s German-language films Films directed by Ernst Marischka German black-and-white films 1940s German films {{1940s-Germany-film-stub