Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull
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Confessions of Felix Krull
The adaptation of Thomas Mann′s eponymous, unfinished novel tells the fantastic story of charming rogue Felix Krull. After he dodges the military draft thanks to his acting abilities, he starts his con man career in a hotel in Paris. Soon he travels the world pretending to be the noble Marquis de Venosta, and his luck with the ladies, namely the eccentric Madame Houpflé and Zouzou, the daughter of his acquaintance Professor Kuckuck, comes in handy. Felix Krull always knows how to impress people, so even when he comes under suspicion of murder, he does not become desperate.
Credits
| Director: | Kurt Hoffmann |
| Screenplay: | Robert T. Thoeren |
| Director of photography: | Friedl Behn-Grund |
| Editing: | Caspar van den Berg |
| Music: | Hans-Martin Majewski |
| Cast: | |
| Horst Buchholz | Felix Krull |
| Liselotte Pulver | Zaza |
| Ingrid Andree | Zouzou |
| Susi Nicoletti | Madame Houpflé |
| Paul Dahlke | Professor Kuckuck |
| Ilse Steppat | Maria Pia |
| Walter Rilla | Lord Kilmarnock |
| Alice Treff | Mutter Venosta |
| Peer Schmidt | Marquis de Venosta |
| Carl Ludwig Lindt | Vater de Venosta |
| Production company: | Filmaufbau GmbH (Göttingen) |
| Producer: | Hans Abich, Rolf Thiele (ungenannt) |
All Credits
| Director: | Kurt Hoffmann |
| Assistant director: | Michael Braun, Wolfgang Kühnlenz |
| Script supervisor: | Hansi Köck |
| Screenplay: | Robert T. Thoeren |
| Co-author: | Erika Mann |
| based on: | Thomas Mann (Roman) |
| Director of photography: | Friedl Behn-Grund |
| Camera operator: | Dieter Wedekind |
| Assistant camera: | Richard Weihmayr |
| Still photography: | Leo Weisse |
| Production design: | Robert Herlth |
| Set design: | Gottfried Will |
| Painter: | Arno Richter |
| Property master: | Waldermar Hinrichs |
| Stand-by props: | Rudolf Dahlke |
| Costume design: | Elisabeth Urbancic, Vera Otto (Assistenz) |
| Costumes: | Herbert Lindenberg, Anni Loretto |
| Make-up artist: | Georg Jauss, Gertrud Weinz |
| Editing: | Caspar van den Berg |
| Assistant editor: | Ursula van den Berg |
| Sound: | Hans Ebel |
| Music: | Hans-Martin Majewski |
| Cast: | |
| Horst Buchholz | Felix Krull |
| Liselotte Pulver | Zaza |
| Ingrid Andree | Zouzou |
| Susi Nicoletti | Madame Houpflé |
| Paul Dahlke | Professor Kuckuck |
| Ilse Steppat | Maria Pia |
| Walter Rilla | Lord Kilmarnock |
| Alice Treff | Mutter Venosta |
| Peer Schmidt | Marquis de Venosta |
| Carl Ludwig Lindt | Vater de Venosta |
| Production company: | Filmaufbau GmbH (Göttingen) |
| Producer: | Hans Abich, Rolf Thiele (ungenannt) |
| Unit production manager: | Eberhard Krause |
| Location manager: | Frank Roell, Kurt Zeimert |
| Production manager: | Herbert Ledwoch |
| Production office: | Ursel Luedtke |
| Shoot: | 24.01.1957-04.03.1957: Hamburg, Lissabon; Real-Film-Studios Hamburg-Wandsbek [32 Drehtage] |
| Original distributor: | Europa-Filmverleih GmbH (Hamburg) |
| Length: | 2933 m, 107 min |
| Format: | 35mm, 1:1,33 |
| Picture/Sound: | s/w, Mono |
| Rating: | FSK-Prüfung (DE): 18.04.1957, 14317, ab 16 Jahre / nicht feiertagsfrei |
| Screening: | Uraufführung (DE): 24.04.1957, Berlin, Gloria-Palast; TV-Erstsendung (DD): 26.12.1959, DFF; TV-Erstsendung (DE): 28.12.1964, ZDF |
Titles
| Originaltitel (DE) Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull |
| Arbeitstitel Die Erinnerungen des Hochstaplers Krull |
Versions
Original | |
| Length: | 2933 m, 107 min |
| Format: | 35mm, 1:1,33 |
| Picture/Sound: | s/w, Mono |
| Rating: | FSK-Prüfung (DE): 18.04.1957, 14317, ab 16 Jahre / nicht feiertagsfrei |
| Screening: | Uraufführung (DE): 24.04.1957, Berlin, Gloria-Palast; TV-Erstsendung (DD): 26.12.1959, DFF; TV-Erstsendung (DE): 28.12.1964, ZDF |
Awards
| Hollywood Foreign Press Association 1959 |
| Golden Globe, Bester ausländischer Film |
| IFF Bordighera 1959 |
| Goldene Olive |
| Deutscher Filmpreis 1957 |
| Filmband in Gold |
| FBW 1957 |
| Prädikat: wertvoll |




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