A young shoemaker is arrested for stealing a small amount of money, and is released after being jailed for 15 years. He wants to have a pass to get a job and start anew, but without a job ...
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Title: The Captain from Köpenick (1956)
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| Heinz Rühmann | ... | Wilhelm Voigt | |
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Martin Held | ... | Dr. Obermüller |
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Hannelore Schroth | ... | Mathilde Obermüller |
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Willy A. Kleinau | ... | Friedrich Hoprecht |
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Leonard Steckel | ... | Adolph Wormser |
| Friedrich Domin | ... | Jail Director | |
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Erich Schellow | ... | Capt. von Schlettow |
| Walter Giller | ... | Willy Wormser | |
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Wolfgang Neuss | ... | Kallenberg (as Wolfgang Neuß) |
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Bum Krüger | ... | Schutzmann Kilian |
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Joseph Offenbach | ... | Wabschke |
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Ilse Fürstenberg | ... | Marie Hoprecht, Voigts Schwester |
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Maria Sebaldt | ... | Auguste Viktoria Wormser, seine Tochter |
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Edith Hancke | ... | Sick girl |
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Ethel Reschke | ... | Pleureusenmieze |
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A young shoemaker is arrested for stealing a small amount of money, and is released after being jailed for 15 years. He wants to have a pass to get a job and start anew, but without a job he doesn't get a pass; and without a pass, he doesn't get a job. He gets into the net of Prussian bureaucracy, and can't see a solution. Until he enters a small Second-Hand Shop, and sees a Prussian Uniform that fits him like a second skin... Written by Patrick Dersjant <pdersjan@telebyte.nl>
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Country:
West GermanyLanguage:
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16 August 1956 (West Germany) See more »Also Known As:
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Color (Eastmancolor)Aspect Ratio:
1.66 : 1
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If stage is included, this play has been the first real caper movie with a smart and sympathetic robber and and a weak but unbeatable seeming system, which is able to give him no options in his normal life, than to beat the system with it's own weapons. The real case of Wilhelm Voigt is as legend in and around Berlin. Zuckmayer's play is one of the best of it's time. I've seen it on stage several times in several towns and countries, but Rühmann is not to defeat. No one else did the job that good, than he did, seeming to be a tall guy, when he was just a small one, being impressing, when he didn't even knew how to handle his own life, giving the money back to prove the faults of the system or just to get a passport. If you like caper movies, just check out, what brains of them might have seen before...