The Captain from Kopenick

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Release date: August 15, 1956
Duration: 93 minutes
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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...

Starring

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Heinz Rühmann
Wilhelm Voigt
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Martin Held
Dr. Obermüller
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Hannelore Schroth
Mathilde Obermüller
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Willy A. Kleinau
Friedrich Hoprecht
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Leonard Steckel
Adolph Wormser