''Carnival Confession'' () is a 1960 West German

crime film Crime film is a film belonging to the crime fiction genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and fiction. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine with many other genres, such as Drama (film and television), dr ...

directed by

William Dieterle William Dieterle (July 15, 1893 – December 9, 1972) was a German-born actor and film director who emigrated to the United States in 1930 to leave a worsening political situation. He worked in Cinema of the United States, Hollywood primarily a ...

and starring Hans Söhnker, Gitty Djamal and

Götz George Götz George (; 23 July 1938 – 19 June 2016) was a German actor, the son of actor couple Berta Drews and Heinrich George. His arguably best-known role is that of Duisburg detective Horst Schimanski in the TV crime series ''Tatort''. Early lif ...

.Bock & Bergfelder p.90 It was made by the revived UFA company and was the veteran director Dieterle's penultimate cinema film and his last in his native Germany.

Cast

* Hans Söhnker as Panezza * Gitty Djamal as Viola *

as Clemens *

Friedrich Domin Friedrich Domin (15 May 1902 – 18 December 1961) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 60 films between 1939 and 1961. He was born in Beuthen, Germany (now Bytom, Poland) and died in Munich, West Germany. In 1922, he graduated ...

as Canon Henrici * Christian Wolff as Jeanmarie *

Berta Drews Berta Emilie Helene Drews (; 19 November 1901 – 10 April 1987) was a German stage and film actress. She appeared in more than 60 films from 1933 to 1983. She was married to actor Heinrich George. The couple had two sons, including actor ...

as Frau Bäumler * Hilde Hildebrand as Mme. Guttier *

Grit Boettcher Grit Boettcher (; born 10 August 1938) is a German actress. Early life In 1938, Boettcher was born in Berlin, Germany. Career Boettcher is an actress in various films on German TV and in stage productions. Boettcher is sometimes credited i ...

as Bertel * Ursula Heyer as Rosa * Helga Schlack as Bettine * Helga Tölle as Katharina * Rainer Brandt as Ferdinand Bäumler *

Herbert Tiede Herbert Tiede (3 March 1915 – 12 January 1987) was a German actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1943 to 1975. Filmography References External links * 1915 births 1987 deaths German male film actors People fro ...

as Merzbecher * Wolfgang Völz * Milena von Eckhardt as Frau Panezza * Albert Bessler as Dr. Classen * Harry Engel

References

Bibliography

* Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. ''The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009.

External links

* 1960 films West German films German historical films 1960s historical films German crime films 1960 crime films 1960s German-language films Films directed by William Dieterle Films set in 1913 Films based on works by Carl Zuckmayer UFA GmbH films 1960s German films German-language crime films {{1960s-Germany-film-stub