The Confessions of Felix Krull
Genre	Adventure
Based on	The Confessions of Felix Krull by Thomas Mann
Written by	Alf Brustellin Bernhard Sinkel
Directed by	Bernhard Sinkel
Composer	Nikos Mamangakis
Country of origin	Austria France West Germany
Original language	German
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	5
Production
Producers	Peter Märthesheimer Ian Warren
Cinematography	Dietrich Lohmann
Running time	60 minutes
Original release
Network	ZDF (West Germany)
Release	24 January (1982-01-24) – 14 February 1982 (1982-02-14)

The Confessions of Felix Krull (German: Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull) is a 1982 adventure television series based on the novel of the same title by Thomas Mann. It was shot as a co-production between Austria, France and West Germany.

The story had previously been adapted into a 1957 film Confessions of Felix Krull. ^[1]

Main cast

• John Moulder-Brown as Felix Krull
  • Oliver Wehe [ de] as Felix Krull (Young)
• Magali Noël as Mme Houpflé
• Fernando Rey as Professor Kuckuck
• Rita Tushingham as Mrs. Twentyman
• Joss Ackland as Mr. Twentyman
• Hans Heinz Moser as Herr Sturzil
• Pierre Doris as Detective
• Alain Flick [ fr] as Monsieur Machatschek
• Klaus Schwarzkopf as Father Krull
• Daphne Wagner [ de] as Mother Krull
• Mareike Carrière as Olympia
• Franziska Walser as Genoveva
• Rolf Zacher as Stanko
• Vera Tschechowa as Maria Pia
• Georgia Slowe as Zouzou
• Kurt Raab as Sally Meerschaum
• Nikolaus Paryla as Schimmelpreester
• Despina Pajanou [ de] as Rosza
• James Cossins as Lord Kilmarnock
• Marie Colbin [ de] as Zaza
• Benno Hoffmann [ de]
• Ulrich Beiger
• Loriot as Thomas Mann (cameo)

References

Bibliography

• Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.

External links

• The Confessions of Felix Krull at IMDb