The Captain from Kopenick (1956)
Der Hauptmann von Köpenick
93 min
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...
- Release date
- August 16, 1956
- Country of origin
- Germany
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Cast
- Heinz Rühmann as Schuster Wilhelm Voigt
- Martin Held as Bürgermeister Dr. Obermüller
- Hannelore Schroth as Mathilde Obermüller
- Willy A. Kleinau as Friedrich Hoprecht
- Leonard Steckel as Uniformschneider Adolph Wormser
- Friedrich Domin as Jail Director
- Erich Schellow as Capt. von Schlettow
- Walter Giller as Willy Wormser
- Wolfgang Neuss as Kallenberg
- Bum Krüger as Schutzmann Kilian
- Joseph Offenbach as Wabschke
- Ilse Fürstenberg as Marie Hoprecht, Voigts sister
- Maria Sebaldt as Auguste Viktoria Wormser
- Edith Hancke as Lieschen, das kranke Mädchen
- Ethel Reschke as Pleureusenmieze
- Siegfried Lowitz as Kassierer Rosenkranz
- Willi Rose as Polizist
- Willy Maertens as Prokurist Knell
- Wolfgang Müller as Zuchthäusler Puhlke
- Balduin Baas as ostpreußischer Grenadier
- Reinhard Kolldehoff as Soldat
Crew
- Helmut Käutner · Director
- Carl Zuckmayer · Writer
- Helmut Käutner · Writer
- Gyula Trebitsch · Producer
- Bernhard Eichhorn · Composer
- Albert Benitz · Cinematographer
- Klaus Dudenhöfer · Editor
- Albrecht Becker · Production designer
- Herbert Kirchhoff · Production designer