The Last Performance

The Last Performance (1928)

Drama

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

Director: Mario Bonnard
Writer: Curt J. Braun

Casts

	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

Crew