The Captain from Kopenick
Comedy, Drama
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...
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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 OffenbachWabschkeIIlse FürstenbergMarie Hoprecht, Voigts sister
Maria SebaldtAuguste Viktoria Wormser
Edith HanckeLieschen, das kranke Mädchen
Ethel ReschkePleureusenmieze
