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The Captain from Kopenick

Original title: Der Hauptmann von Köpenick

1956 · 1h 33m

Directed by Helmut Käutner

7.3

TMDB audience score
59 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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...

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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

  • Ilse Fürstenberg
    Marie Hoprecht, Voigts sister

  • Maria Sebaldt
    Auguste Viktoria Wormser

  • Edith Hancke
    Lieschen, das kranke Mädchen

  • Ethel Reschke
    Pleureusenmieze

  • Siegfried Lowitz
    Kassierer Rosenkranz

  • Willi Rose
    Polizist

  • Willy Maertens
    Prokurist Knell