Confession
Confession is a 1937 American drama film directed by Joe May and starring Kay Francis, Ian Hunter, Basil Rathbone and Jane Bryan. It was a scene-for-scene remake of the 1935 German film Mazurka starring Pola Negri, which Warner Brothers Studios acquired the American distribution rights for and then shelved in favour of the remake. With an estimated $513,000 budget, it started production in March 1937 and was released August 19, 1937 in New York City.
Plot
"In a European city in the year 1930," 17-year-old music student Lisa Koslov (Bryan) sees her mother off at the train station, and as she is leaving, is handed an envelope containing two tickets to a piano concert she suspects come from a well-dressed man she thinks may be stalking her. Her friend Hildegard persuades her to attend the concert and realizes the man is the pianist himself, the renowned Michael Michailow (Rathbone). On Lisa's behalf, Hildegard accepts Michailow's dinner invitation to Lisa when she has misgivings. There he suavely pleads his loneliness and begs to see her the next day. When she goes to her conservatory lessons instead, she discovers that he has lied to the professor to insinuate himself as her tutor. Michailow kisses Lisa, who despite awareness that the situation is unsavory, responds to the kiss.
More details
| author | Hans Rameau Julius J. Epstein |
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| director | Joe May |
| editor | James Gibbon |
| genre | drama |
| keywords | beg cabaret chanteuse conservatory diva follow how to lose misgive mitigating evidence morning music school second wife sense of guilt shoot stalk think train station warsaw |
| musicBy | Peter Kreuder |
| producer | Hal B. Wallis Jack L. Warner |
| productionCompany | Warner Bros. |
| publisher | Warner Bros. |