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Seven Years Hard Luck (1940)

Seven Years Hard Luck poster
Original title
Sieben Jahre Pech
Directed by
Ernst Marischka
Genre
comedy film
Country
Germany
Runtime
1h 30m
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A romantic comedy from 1940 where a man finds himself in a streak of bad luck. His misfortunes are played for laughs as he tries to win over a woman.

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What happens

Seven Years Hard Luck (German: Sieben Jahre Pech) is a 1940 German romantic comedy film directed by Ernst Marischka and starring Hans Moser, Ida Wüst and Olly Holzmann. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Hans Ledersteger and Heinrich Richter. The film was produced by the independent company Styria-Film in German-controlled Austria. It was followed by a sequel Seven Years of Good Luck in 1942. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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