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The Captain from Kopenick

72 %|Aug 15, 1956|Comedy, Drama

The 1956 movie based on the theater play by Carl Zuckmayer based on the true story of cobbler Wilhelm Voigt who dressed up as a German military officer and, with the help of unsuspecting soldiers, took over the city hall in Köpenick and confiscated the city's purse.

Featured Crew

Helmut Käutner
Director
Helmut Käutner
Screenplay
Carl Zuckmayer
Screenplay
Carl Zuckmayer
Theatre Play
Gyula Trebitsch
Producer
Bernhard Eichhorn
Original Music Composer
Albert Benitz
Director of Photography
Klaus Dudenhöfer
Editor

Cast

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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
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Friedrich Domin
Zuchthausdirektor
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Erich Schellow
Capt. von Schlettow
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Walter Giller
Willy Wormser
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Wolfgang Neuss
Zuchthäusler Kallenberg
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Bum Krüger
Schutzmann Kilian
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Ilse Fürstenberg
Marie Hoprecht, Voigts sister
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Maria Sebaldt
Auguste Viktoria Wormser
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Edith Hancke
Lieschen, das kranke Mädchen
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Ethel Reschke
Pleureusenmieze
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Siegfried Lowitz
Kassierer Rosenkranz
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Willi Rose
Polizist
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Willy Maertens
Prokurist Knell
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Wolfgang Müller
Zuchthäusler Puhlke
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Balduin Baas
ostpreußischer Grenadier