Synopsis
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...
Ratings
IMDb7.2/10
58 audience votes
Key crew
- Helmut KäutnerDirector
- Carl ZuckmayerScreenplay
- Helmut KäutnerScreenplay
- Bernhard EichhornOriginal Music Composer
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