--- title: 'Confessions of Felix Krull (1957)' type: 'film' director: 'Kurt Hoffmann' released: '1957-01-01' runtime_minutes: 103 genres: - 'Drama' - 'Comedy' countries: - 'Germany' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/confessions-of-felix-krull-1957' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050179/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Confessions of Felix Krull (1957) 1957 · 103 min · Drama, Comedy · Germany Original title: Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull ## Synopsis Confessions of Felix Krull is a 1957 West German comedy and drama film directed by Kurt Hoffmann and starring Horst Buchholz, Liselotte Pulver, and Ingrid Andree. It is based on the 1954 novel of the same title by Thomas Mann. The story was later made into a 1982 television series The Confessions of Felix Krull. It was shot at the Wandsbek Studios in Hamburg and on location in Lisbon. The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Herlth. The film won a Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 15th Golden Globe Awards and Best Feature-Length Film at the 1957 Filmband in Gold awards. Bucholz was awarded the 1958 Bambi Award for his performance. Mann's novel was made into a movie again in 2021. ## Credits - **Director:** [Kurt Hoffmann](https://cinepixo.com/people/kurt-hoffmann), [Bernhard Sinkel](https://cinepixo.com/people/bernhard-sinkel) - **Screenplay:** [Thomas Mann](https://cinepixo.com/people/thomas-mann), [Erika Mann](https://cinepixo.com/people/erika-mann), [Robert Thoeren](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-thoeren) - **Original Music Composer:** [Hans-Martin Majewski](https://cinepixo.com/people/hans-martin-majewski) - **Producer:** [Hans Abich](https://cinepixo.com/people/hans-abich) - **Director of Photography:** [Friedl Behn-Grund](https://cinepixo.com/people/friedl-behn-grund), [Dieter Wedekind](https://cinepixo.com/people/dieter-wedekind) ## Cast - [Ilse Steppat](https://cinepixo.com/people/ilse-steppat) - [Horst Buchholz](https://cinepixo.com/people/horst-buchholz) - [Heinz Klevenow](https://cinepixo.com/people/heinz-klevenow) - [Jo Herbst](https://cinepixo.com/people/jo-herbst) - [Alice Treff](https://cinepixo.com/people/alice-treff) - [Paul Henckels](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-henckels) - [Liselotte Pulver](https://cinepixo.com/people/liselotte-pulver) - [Günther Jerschke](https://cinepixo.com/people/gunther-jerschke) - [Ingrid Andree](https://cinepixo.com/people/ingrid-andree) - [Herbert Weicker](https://cinepixo.com/people/herbert-weicker) - [Erica Schramm](https://cinepixo.com/people/erica-schramm) - [Werner Hinz](https://cinepixo.com/people/werner-hinz) - [Robert Meyn](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-meyn) - [Eberhard Fechner](https://cinepixo.com/people/eberhard-fechner) - [Peer Schmidt](https://cinepixo.com/people/peer-schmidt) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/confessions-of-felix-krull-1957 Film facts: Wikidata (Q815014); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.