Venus fra Vestø

Venus fra Vestø (literally, Venus from West Island) is a 1962 Danish comedy war film directed by Annelise Reenberg and starring Malene Schwartz. The film is based on Jerrard Tickell's 1951 novel Appointment with Venus (Danish title: Operation Venus), but re-set on a Danish island rather than a fictional island in the Channel Islands archipelago.

Venus fra Vestø
Film poster
Directed by	Annelise Reenberg
Written by	Børge Müller Jerrard Tickell
Produced by	Poul Bang
Starring	Malene Schwartz
Cinematography	Rudolf Frederiksen Ole Lytken
Edited by	Wera Iwanouw Lizzi Weischenfeldt
Music by	Sven Gyldmark
Production company	Saga Studios
Distributed by	ASA Film
Release date	21 December 1962 (1962-12-21)
Running time	116 minutes
Country	Denmark
Language	Danish

Cast

• Malene Schwartz as Miss Nicola Egede-Schack
• Henning Moritzen as John Morland
• Dirch Passer as Ditlev Egede-Schack
• William Knoblauch as Parish Council Chairman^[a] Ole Klausen
• Ole Wegener as Radio Telegraphist Henriksen
• Jan Priiskorn-Schmidt as Søren Severinsen
• Arthur Jensen as Pive Ras
• Holger Hansen as Morten Jacobsen^[b]
• Gunnar Lemvigh as Kromand
• Jakob Nielsen as Kristoffer
• Jerrard Tickell as Uncle George
• Poul Thomsen as Courtroom Interpreter
• Karl Heinz Neumann as Captain Weiss
• Inger Knoblauch
• Edith Hermansen
• Avi Sagild as Mathilde
• Varinka Wichfeld Muus
• Flemming B. Muus
• Vera Lynn as Herself
• Richard Wattis, Edward Chapman, Allan Blanner and David Collet as Englishmen

Notes

1. Sognerådsformand
2. 'Trawler Jack' in the original novel

See also

• Appointment with Venus (1951)