Movielogr
The Captain from Kopenick (1956)
Directed by Helmut Käutner
Overview
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…
Length 93 minutes
Actors
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