# Carnival Confession > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Carnival_Confession > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Carnival_Confession.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnival_Confession > Source revision: 1355231494 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) 1960 film 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](/source/German_language): ***Die Fastnachtsbeichte***) is a 1960 West German [crime film](/source/Crime_film) directed by [William Dieterle](/source/William_Dieterle) and starring [Hans Söhnker](/source/Hans_S%C3%B6hnker), [Gitty Djamal](/source/Gitty_Djamal) and [Götz George](/source/G%C3%B6tz_George).[1] It was made by the revived [UFA](/source/Universum_Film_AG) company and was the veteran director Dieterle's penultimate cinema film and his last in his native Germany. ## Cast - [Hans Söhnker](/source/Hans_S%C3%B6hnker) as Panezza - [Gitty Djamal](/source/Gitty_Djamal) as Viola - [Götz George](/source/G%C3%B6tz_George) as Clemens - [Friedrich Domin](/source/Friedrich_Domin) as Canon Henrici - [Christian Wolff](/source/Christian_Wolff_(actor)) as Jeanmarie - [Berta Drews](/source/Berta_Drews) as Frau Bäumler - [Hilde Hildebrand](/source/Hilde_Hildebrand) as Mme. Guttier - [Grit Boettcher](/source/Grit_Boettcher) as Bertel - [Ursula Heyer](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ursula_Heyer&action=edit&redlink=1) as Rosa - [Helga Schlack](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Helga_Schlack&action=edit&redlink=1) as Bettine - [Helga Tölle](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Helga_T%C3%B6lle&action=edit&redlink=1) as Katharina - [Rainer Brandt](/source/Rainer_Brandt) as Ferdinand Bäumler - [Herbert Tiede](/source/Herbert_Tiede) as Merzbecher - [Wolfgang Völz](/source/Wolfgang_V%C3%B6lz) - [Milena von Eckhardt](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Milena_von_Eckhardt&action=edit&redlink=1) as Frau Panezza - [Albert Bessler](/source/Albert_Bessler) as Dr. Classen - [Harry Engel](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Harry_Engel&action=edit&redlink=1) ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Bock & Bergfelder p.90 ## Bibliography - Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. *The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema*. Berghahn Books, 2009. ## External links - [*Carnival Confession*](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053816/) at [IMDb](/source/IMDb_(identifier)) v t e Films directed by William Dieterle 1920s Man by the Wayside (1923) Behind the Altar (1927) The Saint and Her Fool (1928) Sex in Chains (1928) Rustle of Spring (1929) Ludwig II, King of Bavaria (1929) Triumph of Love (1929) The Brandenburg Arch (1929) Silence in the Forest (1929) 1930s The Dance Goes On (1930) Demon of the Sea (1931) One Hour of Happiness (1931) The Sacred Flame (1931) The Last Flight (1931) Her Majesty, Love (1931) Man Wanted (1932) Jewel Robbery (1932) The Crash (1932) Six Hours to Live (1932) Scarlet Dawn (1932) Lawyer Man (1933) Adorable (1933) The Devil's in Love (1933) Grand Slam (1933) Female (1933) From Headquarters (1933) Fog Over Frisco (1934) Fashions of 1934 (1934) Madame Du Barry (1934) Dr. Monica (1934) The Firebird (1934) The Secret Bride (1934) A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935) Dr. Socrates (1935) The Story of Louis Pasteur (1935) The White Angel (1936) Satan Met a Lady (1936) The Great O'Malley (1937) The Prince and the Pauper (1937) Another Dawn (1937) The Life of Emile Zola (1937) Blockade (1938) Juarez (1939) The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) 1940s Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940) A Dispatch from Reuters (1940) The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941) Syncopation (1942) Tennessee Johnson (1943) Kismet (1944) I'll Be Seeing You (1944) Love Letters (1945) This Love of Ours (1945) The Searching Wind (1946) Duel in the Sun (1946) Portrait of Jennie (1948) The Accused (1949) Rope of Sand (1949) 1950s Paid in Full (1950) Vulcano (1950) September Affair (1950) Dark City (1950) Peking Express (1951) Red Mountain (1951) Boots Malone (1952) The Turning Point (1952) Salome (1953) Elephant Walk (1954) Magic Fire (1955) Omar Khayyam (1957) Dubrowsky (1959) 1960s Mistress of the World (1960) Carnival Confession (1960) Quick, Let's Get Married (1964) Authority control databases GND This article related to a German film of the 1960s is a stub. 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