Carnival Confession

Carnival Confession
Directed by	William Dieterle
Written by	Kurt Heuser Carl Zuckmayer (novel)
Produced by	Dietrich von Theobald
Starring	Hans Söhnker Gitty Djamal Götz George
Cinematography	Heinz Pehlke
Edited by	Carl Otto Bartning
Music by	Siegfried Franz
Production company	UFA
Distributed by	UFA
Release date	15 September 1960 (1960-09-15)
Running time	97 minutes
Country	West Germany
Language	German

Carnival Confession (German: Die Fastnachtsbeichte) is a 1960 West German crime film directed by William Dieterle and starring Hans Söhnker, Gitty Djamal and Götz George.

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
• Götz George as Clemens
• Friedrich Domin as Canon Henrici
• Christian Wolff as Jeanmarie
• Berta Drews as Frau Bäumler
• Hilde Hildebrand as Mme. Guttier
• Grit Boettcher as Bertel
• Ursula Heyer as Rosa
• Helga Schlack as Bettine
• Helga Tölle as Katharina
• Rainer Brandt as Ferdinand Bäumler
• Herbert Tiede as Merzbecher
• Wolfgang Völz
• Milena von Eckhardt as Frau Panezza
• Albert Bessler as Dr. Classen
• Harry Engel

Bibliography

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

External links

• Carnival Confession at IMDb