Film · Drama, Comedy
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
- Carl Zuckmayer, Helmut Käutner
- Country
- Germany
- Language
- German
- Release date
- August 15, 1956
- Original title
- Der Hauptmann von Köpenick
Cast
Heinz RühmannWilhelm Voigt
Martin HeldDr. Obermüller
Hannelore SchrothMathilde Obermüller
Willy A. KleinauFriedrich Hoprecht
Leonard SteckelAdolph Wormser
Friedrich DominZuchthausdirektor
Erich SchellowCapt. von Schlettow
Walter GillerWilly Wormser
Wolfgang NeussZuchthäusler Kallenberg
Bum KrügerSchutzmann Kilian
Joseph OffenbachWabschke- Ilse FürstenbergMarie Hoprecht, Voigts sister
Maria SebaldtAuguste Viktoria Wormser
Edith HanckeLieschen, das kranke Mädchen
Ethel ReschkePleureusenmieze
Siegfried LowitzKassierer Rosenkranz
Willi RosePolizist
Willy MaertensProkurist Knell
Wolfgang MüllerZuchthäusler Puhlke
Balduin Baasostpreußischer Grenadier
