The Reverend Turns a Blind Eye

1971 film
  • Günther Köpf
  • Erich Tomek
Starring
  • Roy Black
  • Uschi Glas
  • Georg Thomalla
CinematographyHeinz HölscherEdited byEva ZeynMusic byGerhard Heinz
Production
company
Divina-Film
Distributed byGloria Film
Release date
  • 26 November 1971 (1971-11-26)
Running time
90 minutesCountryWest GermanyLanguageGerman

The Reverend Turns a Blind Eye (German: Hochwürden drückt ein Auge zu) is a 1971 West German comedy film directed by Harald Vock and starring Roy Black, Uschi Glas and Georg Thomalla.[1] It was followed by a 1972 sequel Always Trouble with the Reverend.

It was partly shot on location around Lake Wörthersee in the Austrian state of Carinthia.[citation needed]

Synopsis

A well-meaning priest gets himself into a number of scrapes.

Cast

  • Roy Black as Michael Springer
  • Uschi Glas as Barbara Jansen
  • Georg Thomalla as Pfarrer Himmelreich
  • Peter Weck as Thomas Springer
  • Fritz Eckhardt as Bischof
  • Heinz Reincke as Alfred
  • Hans Tügel as Kapitän Jansen
  • Elisabeth Felchner as Mathilde
  • Erik Frey as Bürgermeister
  • Alexander Grill as Bus-Chauffeur
  • Elisabeth Stiepl as Frau Bürgermeister
  • Guido Wieland as Jochen
  • Norbert Kammil
  • Johann Sklenka as Matrose
  • Myriam Dreifuss as Röschen
  • Felix Dvorak as Branmeister
  • Rudi Carrell as Rudi Carnel
  • Heidi Hansen as Doris
  • Ernst H. Hilbich as Polizist
  • Paul Klinger as Narrator
  • Chris Roberts as Georg

References

  1. ^ Bock & Bergfelder p.269

Bibliography

  • Hans-Michael Bock and Tim Bergfelder. The Concise Cinegraph: An Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.
  • The Reverend Turns a Blind Eye at IMDb


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