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
Bernhard Eichhorn
Original Music Composer
Albert Benitz
Director of Photography
Carl Zuckmayer
Screenplay
Helmut Käutner
Screenplay
Gyula Trebitsch
Producer
Helmut Käutner
Director
Carl Zuckmayer
Theatre Play
Klaus Dudenhöfer
Editor
Cast
Heinz Rühmann
Wilhelm Voigt
Martin Held
Dr. Obermüller
Hannelore Schroth
Mathilde Obermüller
Willy A. Kleinau
Friedrich Hoprecht
Leonard Steckel
Adolph Wormser
Friedrich Domin
Zuchthausdirektor
Erich Schellow
Capt. von Schlettow
Walter Giller
Willy Wormser
Wolfgang Neuss
Zuchthäusler Kallenberg
Bum Krüger
Schutzmann Kilian
Joseph Offenbach
Wabschke
Ilse Fürstenberg
Marie Hoprecht, Voigts sister
Maria Sebaldt
Auguste Viktoria Wormser
Edith Hancke
Lieschen, das kranke Mädchen
Ethel Reschke
Pleureusenmieze
Siegfried Lowitz
Kassierer Rosenkranz
Willi Rose
Polizist
Willy Maertens
Prokurist Knell
Wolfgang Müller
Zuchthäusler Puhlke
Balduin Baas
ostpreußischer Grenadier
Reinhard Kolldehoff
Soldat