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The Last Performance

8.0 68 mins Drama   1928
Seymour Nebenzal Productions   Nero-Film AG   Jakob Karol Film GmbH  
Director(s): Mario Bonnard

Release Date: 05 Mon, Nov 1928

The impressive cast is headed by the great Heinrich George as Boris Stroganoff, an opera composer and conductor who’s also a notorious lothario. Albani is ballet dancer Viola Suroff, who’s put her career aside to look after her partner Maxim Sadi, a baritone with unspecified health issues that have kept him off stage. Stroganoff sets his sights on Viola and offers her a job in the corps de ballet for his new opera The Boyar, which she accepts provided Maxim is also hired. However, dancer Margot (called Myrra in the French version) maintains a seething passion for Stroganoff, as does Countess Geschow (called Countess Ziska on this print), both of whom are resentful when watching his interactions with Viola. Jealousies run high on opening night between all the characters and Stroganoff is shot mid-performance, but who is the killer: Maxim, Margot, or Geschow?I

Casts of The Last Performance

Marcella Albani

as Viola Suroff

Heinrich George

as Boris Stroganoff

Jean Bradin

as Maxim Sad

Evi Eva

as Margot (Myra)

Sig Arno

as Gaston

Ita Rina

as Maria

Wolfgang von Schwindt

as Dombrowsky

Corry Bell

as Elsa

Valerie Boothby

as Gräfin Geschow

Paul Hörbiger

as Balletmeister

Raimondo Van Riel

as Zemikoff

Otto Kronburger

as Kommissar

Otto Wallburg

as Tenas

Eduardo D'Accursio

as Paschkin

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