The Captain from Kopenick
- Released on
- Runtime
- 93 mins
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...
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
- Martin Held
- Hannelore Schroth
- Willy A. Kleinau
- Leonard Steckel
- Friedrich Domin
- Erich Schellow
- Walter Giller
- Wolfgang Neuss
- Bum Krüger
- Joseph Offenbach
- Ilse Fürstenberg
- Maria Sebaldt
- Edith Hancke
- Ethel Reschke
- Siegfried Lowitz
- Willi Rose
- Willy Maertens
- Wolfgang Müller
- Balduin Baas
- Reinhard Kolldehoff
Director
- Helmut Käutner
Producers
- Gyula Trebitsch
Screenwriter
- Helmut Käutner
- Carl Zuckmayer
