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From the 1956 movie Der Hauptmann von Köpenick / The Captain from Köpenick.
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Der Hauptmann von Köpenick ist ein deutscher Farbfilm nach dem gleichnamigen Theaterstück von Carl Zuckmayer über den „Hauptmann von Köpenick“. Es handelt si...
1956 The Captain from Köpenick Official Trailer 1 Real-Film GmbHCategory: Comedy, DramaProduction: Real-Film GmbHDirector: Helmut KäutnerCast:Heinz Rühmann ....
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- Wilhelm Voight – Early Years
- Moving to Berlin
- The Coup
- How ID Ended
- Aftermath
Wilhelm Voigt was born in Tilsit on 13 February 1849 as the son of a shoemaker. Already at the age of 14, Voigt was arrested for stealing, and after this he became a shoemaker who traveled around Germany. However, in the following years, he was arrested several times for various crimes. Between 1864 and 1891 he was convicted four times for theft an...
Thereupon he moved to Rixdorf near Berlin, where he lived with his older sister Bertha and her husband, the bookbinder Menz, and found work in a shoe factory. On 24 August 1906 Wilhelm Voigt was also banned from living in the greater Berlin area, although he did not adhere to it. Instead he stayed as a “Schlafbursche” in an unannounced accommodatio...
Voigt started making plans for a coup. He purchased used parts of a captain uniform of the first regiment and gave orders to several soldiers he found on the streets. Those did not recognize his costume and together they took off for Köpenickand made a short stop for a couple of beers. On their way, he explained that he is going to have the mayor a...
After the end of his action the captain of Köpenick gave his troops the order to keep the town hall occupied for half an hour. He himself went back to the station under the eyes of a curious crowd. According to newspaper reports, he was served a glass of light in the station restaurant, which he emptied in one go, and disappeared on the next train ...
All over Germany, people laughed about this act of desperation and even the court saw that not having any perspective in life after prison caused this kind of behavior. Every newspaper in the country started writing about the false captain, poems, stories and even theater plays were created and kept the political and cultural scene Germany’s busy f...
The Captain from Köpenick (German: Der Hauptmann von Köpenick) is a 1956 West German comedy film directed by Helmut Käutner and based upon the 1931 play The Captain of Köpenick by Carl Zuckmayer. The play was based on the true story of Wilhelm Voigt , a German impostor who masqueraded as a Prussian military officer in 1906 and became famous as the Captain from Köpenick.
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.
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. 93 mins More at IMDb TMDb.
