Confess, Doctor Corda

Confess, Doctor Corda
Directed by	Josef von Báky
Written by	Robert A. Stemmle
Produced by	Artur Brauner Horst Wendlandt
Starring	Hardy Krüger Elisabeth Müller Lucie Mannheim Hans Nielsen
Cinematography	Göran Strindberg
Edited by	Walter Wischniewsky
Music by	Georg Haentzschel
Production company	CCC Film
Distributed by	Europa Film
Release date	22 May 1958
Running time	93 minutes
Country	West Germany
Language	German

Confess, Doctor Corda (German: Gestehen Sie, Dr. Corda) is a 1958 West German crime film directed by Josef von Báky and starring Hardy Krüger, Elisabeth Müller and Lucie Mannheim. It is considered to be a film noir, one of a number made in Germany during the decade.

A Doctor goes to a meet a young woman in a park at night, only to find that she has been murdered before he got there. The police consider him the prime suspect, and put him under considerable pressure to confess.

Cast

• Hardy Krüger as Dr. Fred Corda
• Elisabeth Müller as Beate Corda
• Lucie Mannheim as Mrs. Bieringer
• Hans Nielsen as Dr. Nagel
• Fritz Tillmann as Dr. Pohlhammer
• Eva Pflug as Gabriele Montag
• Rudolf Fernau as Professor Schliessmann
• Siegfried Lowitz as Inspektor Guggitz
• Emmy Burg as Oberin
• Lore Hartling as Schwester Antonia
• Paul Edwin Roth as Dr. Schimmer
• Ernst Sattler as Vater von Corda
• Albert Bessler as Dr. Dollheubel
• Jochen Blume as Untersuchungsrichter
• Alfred Balthoff as Detektiv Juch
• Roma Bahn as Ehemalige Krankenschwester
• Werner Buttler as Dr. Feldmacher
• Reinhard Kolldehoff as Kriminalbeamter Kerndl
• Georg Gütlich as Polizeiarzt Dr. Gruber
• Hans Binner as Mörder
• Sigrid Hackenberg as Schwester Emerentia
• Ursula Hoeflich as Schwester Veronika
• Maria Krasna as Frau im Carmen-Kostüm
• Barbara Wieczik as Susi Corda

Bibliography

• Spicer, Andrew. Historical Dictionary of Film Noir. Scarecrow Press, 2010.

External links

• Confess, Doctor Corda at IMDb