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The Captain from Kopenick (1956)
Directed by Helmut Käutner
Comedy, Drama · 1h 33m
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...
Cast
Heinz Rühmann
Wilhelm Voigt
Martin Held
Dr. Obermüller
Hannelore Schroth
Mathilde Obermüller
Willy A. Kleinau
Friedrich Hoprecht
Leonard Steckel
Adolph Wormser
Friedrich Domin
Zuchthausdirektor
Erich Schellow
Capt. von Schlettow
Walter Giller
Willy Wormser
Wolfgang Neuss
Zuchthäusler Kallenberg
Bum Krüger
Schutzmann Kilian
Joseph Offenbach
Wabschke
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Ilse Fürstenberg
Marie Hoprecht, Voigts sister
Crew
- Director
- Helmut Käutner
- Screenplay
- Carl Zuckmayer, Helmut Käutner
- Director of Photography
- Albert Benitz
- Original Music Composer
- Bernhard Eichhorn
- Editor
- Klaus Dudenhöfer
- Producer
- Gyula Trebitsch
Details
- Original title
- Der Hauptmann von Köpenick
- Release date
- 1956-08-15
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama
- Original language
- DE
- Spoken languages
- German
- Countries
- Germany
- Production
- Real-Film