Morning's at Seven (film)
1968 film by Kurt Hoffmann
Morning's at Seven (German: Morgens um Sieben ist die Welt noch in Ordnung) is a 1968 West German family comedy film directed by Kurt Hoffmann and starring Gerlinde Locker, Peter Arens and Werner Hinz. It was based on the 1965 novel Morning's at Seven by the British writer Eric Malpass. A sequel When Sweet Moonlight Is Sleeping in the Hills was released the following year with much of the same cast.
It was shot at the Spandau Studios in Berlin and on location around Solingen in North Rhine-Westphalia and Großenbrode and Fehmarn on the Baltic in Schleswig-Holstein. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Isabella Schlichting and Werner Schlichting.
Cast
Archibald Eser as Gaylord
Gerlinde Locker as May
Peter Arens as Jocelyn
Werner Hinz as Grandfather
Agnes Windeck as Aunt Marigold
Maria Körber as Rose
Diana Körner as Becky
Gerd Vespermann as Roberts
Herbert Bötticher as Stan
Rolf Zacher as Peter
Eva Lissa as Frau Fogerty
Gerd Lohmeyer as Willy
Wolfgang Petry as Bert
Lu Säuberlich as Tante Bea
Charles Hans Vogt as Onkel Ben
Dinah Hinz as Fräulein Marston
Dirk Reichert as David
References
Bibliography
Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.
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