The Captain from Kopenick
Der Hauptmann von Köpenick
Release: 1956-08-15
·Runtime: 93m
·★ 7.2
Comedy
Drama
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...
Production Countries
Germany
Production Companies
Real-Film
Cast
Erich Schellow
as Capt. von Schlettow
Wolfgang Neuss
as Zuchthäusler Kallenberg
Bum Krüger
as Schutzmann Kilian
Heinz Rühmann
as Wilhelm Voigt
Hannelore Schroth
as Mathilde Obermüller
Friedrich Domin
as Zuchthausdirektor
Willi Rose
as Polizist
Willy Maertens
as Prokurist Knell
Willy A. Kleinau
as Friedrich Hoprecht
Walter Giller
as Willy Wormser
Maria Sebaldt
as Auguste Viktoria Wormser
Ethel Reschke
as Pleureusenmieze
Siegfried Lowitz
as Kassierer Rosenkranz
Wolfgang Müller
as Zuchthäusler Puhlke
Leonard Steckel
as Adolph Wormser
Joseph Offenbach
as Wabschke
Edith Hancke
as Lieschen, das kranke Mädchen
Balduin Baas
as ostpreußischer Grenadier
Reinhard Kolldehoff
as Soldat
Martin Held
as Dr. Obermüller
