The Captain from Kopenick (1956)
A young shoemaker is arrested for stealing a small amount of money, and is jailed for fifteen years. Upon his release, he wants to get a permit to get a job and start anew, but finds that without a job he can't get a permit, and without a permit he can't get a job. Ensnared in the absurd net of Prussian bureaucracy, he can't see any way out. That is, until he enters a thrift shop and spots a Prussian officer's uniform that fits him like a second skin...
Director:
Helmut Käutner
Writers:
Helmut Käutner, Carl Zuckmayer.
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Heinz Rühmann as Wilhelm Voigt |
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Martin Held as Dr. Obermüller |
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Hannelore Schroth as Mathilde Obermüller |
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Willy A. Kleinau as Friedrich Hoprecht |
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Leonard Steckel as Adolph Wormser |
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Friedrich Domin as Zuchthausdirektor |
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Erich Schellow as Capt. von Schlettow |
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Walter Giller as Willy Wormser |
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Wolfgang Neuss as Zuchthäusler Kallenberg |
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Bum Krüger as Schutzmann Kilian |
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Joseph Offenbach as Wabschke |
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Ilse Fürstenberg as Marie Hoprecht, Voigts sister |
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Maria Sebaldt as Auguste Viktoria Wormser |
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Edith Hancke as Lieschen, das kranke Mädchen |
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Ethel Reschke as Pleureusenmieze |
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Siegfried Lowitz as Kassierer Rosenkranz |
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Willi Rose as Polizist |
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Willy Maertens as Prokurist Knell |
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Wolfgang Müller as Zuchthäusler Puhlke |
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Balduin Baas as ostpreußischer Grenadier |
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Reinhard Kolldehoff as Soldat |
| Directing | Helmut Käutner | Director |
| Writing | Helmut Käutner | Screenplay |
| Writing | Carl Zuckmayer | Screenplay |
| Writing | Carl Zuckmayer | Theatre Play |
| Production | Gyula Trebitsch | Producer |
| Sound | Bernhard Eichhorn | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Albert Benitz | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Klaus Dudenhöfer | Editor |
