The Captain from Kopenick

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...

• Bernhard EichhornOriginal Music Composer
• Carl ZuckmayerScreenplay
• Helmut KäutnerScreenplay
• Helmut KäutnerDirector

• 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