{{Short description|1960 film}} {{Infobox film | name = Carnival Confession | image =Carnival Confession.jpg | caption = | director = [[William Dieterle]] | producer = [[Dietrich von Theobald]] | writer = {{ubl|[[Kurt Heuser]]|[[Carl Zuckmayer]] ([[Die Fastnachtsbeichte|novel]])}} | narrator = | starring = {{ubl|[[Hans Söhnker]]|[[Gitty Djamal]]|[[Götz George]]}} | music = [[Siegfried Franz]] | cinematography = [[Heinz Pehlke]] | editing = [[Carl Otto Bartning]] | studio = [[Universum Film AG|UFA]] | distributor = UFA | released = {{Film date|1960|09|15|df=yes}} | runtime = 97 minutes | country = West Germany | language = [[German language|German]] | budget = | gross = }}
'''''Carnival Confession''''' ({{langx|de|'''Die Fastnachtsbeichte'''}}) is a 1960 West German [[crime film]] directed by [[William Dieterle]] and starring [[Hans Söhnker]], [[Gitty Djamal]] and [[Götz George]].<ref>Bock & Bergfelder p.90</ref>
It was made by the revived [[Universum Film AG|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 (actor)|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]]
== References == {{reflist}}
== Bibliography == * Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. ''The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009.
== External links == * {{IMDb title|0053816}}
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