''Final Accord'' or ''Final Chord'' (German: ''Schlußakkord'') is a 1960

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directed by

Wolfgang Liebeneiner Wolfgang Georg Louis Liebeneiner (6 October 1905 – 28 November 1987) was a German actor, film director and theatre director. Beginnings He was born in Lubawka, Liebau in Prussian Silesia. In 1928, he was taught by Otto Falckenberg, the directo ...

and starring

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Eleonora Rossi Drago Eleonora Rossi Drago, born Palmina Omiccioli, (23 September 1925 – 2 December 2007) was an Italian film actress. She was born in Quinto al Mare, Genoa, Italy, and had the leading role in '' Le amiche''. She appeared in '' The Facts of Mur ...

and

Viktor de Kowa Viktor de Kowa (also spelled Victor de Kowa, born Victor Paul Karl Kowalczyk; 8 March 1904 – 8 April 1973) was a German stage and film actor, chanson singer, director, narrator, and comic poet. Life He was born the son of a farmer and engineer ...

. It was made as a co-production between France, Italy and West Germany. It is a remake of the 1936 film of the same title by

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.Reimer & Reimer p.188 The film's sets were designed by the

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and

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took place around

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, particularly at the

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Cast

as Frank Leroux *

as Linda Valore * Mario Del Monaco as Carlo del Monti *

as Alexander von Berkin * Marion Michael as Jacqueline Petersen * Christian Wolff as Freddy *

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as Josefine Wendelin *

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as Vladya Dupont *

Ljuba Welitsch Ljuba Welitsch (''Veličkova''; 10 July 1913 – 1 September 1996) was an operatic soprano. She was born in Borisovo, Bulgaria, studied in Sofia and Vienna, and sang in opera houses in Austria and Germany in the late 1930s and early and mid ...

as Louise *

Rudolf Carl Rudolf Carl (19 June 189915 January 1987) was an Austrians, Austrian actor who appeared in more than 150 German language films between 1934 and 1969. He also directed two films ''Der Leberfleck'' and ''Dort in der Wachau''. Selected filmography * ...

as 'Höllenstein'-Wirt *

Hannsgeorg Laubenthal Hannsgeorg Laubenthal (1911–1971) was a German stage actor, who also acted in film and television.Fischer-Lichte p.157 In 1967 he was awarded the Hersfeld-Preis. Selected filmography * '' Signal in the Night'' (1937) * ''The Leghorn Hat'' (19 ...

as Robert Michaelis * Fritz Lafontaine as Kellner *

Hans Thimig Hans Emil Thimig, pseudonym: Hans Werner (23 July 1900 in Vienna – 17 February 1991, also in Vienna) was an Austrian actor, film director, and stage director. Life The youngest son of the Burgtheater actor Hugo Thimig and Franziska "Fanny" H ...

as Dr. Thimm, Chefarzt

References

Bibliography

* Robert, Reimer, & Reimer, Carol. ''The A to Z of German Cinema''. Scarecrow Press, 2010.

External links

* 1960 films West German films German drama films 1960 drama films French drama films Italian drama films 1960s German-language films Films directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner Gloria Film films Remakes of German films Films set in Salzburg 1960s German films 1960s Italian films 1960s French films German-language drama films {{1960s-Germany-film-stub