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An actress in a Brecht play discovers her brother-in-law Franz was not executed for war crimes in this man’s film adaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre’s The Condemned of Altona. (-5[1])A character played by this man tells a customs agent to ask about jewelry he purchased in Constantinople, despite the agent’s protests that he cannot search his baggage because this actor’s character has a diplomatic passport. The death of a character played by this actor is implied when only a single shot is heard from an (*) offscreen duel, causing his lover to faint against a tree. Max Ophüls was (10[1])originally too embarrassed to give direction to this actor as Baron Donati in The Earrings of Madame de…. In a film by this director, an elderly man chooses not to commit suicide because he is unable to find a caretaker for his dog Flike. For 10 points, name this director who collaborated with screenwriter Cesare Zavattini on neorealist films like Umberto D. ■END■

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