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The Captain from Köpenick (1956) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
The Captain from Köpenick: Directed by Helmut Käutner. With Heinz Rühmann, Martin Held, Hannelore Schroth, Willy A. Kleinau. A young shoemaker is arrested for stealing a small amount of money, and is released after being jailed for 15 years.
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- 1956-08-16
- Helmut Käutner
- 93
Overall, The Captain from Köpenick was pretty slow and directionless for the first half but becomes very entertaining and funny by the second half of the film. Page 1 of 4, 7 total items. The ...
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- Heinz Rühmann
- Helmut Kautner
- Comedy, Drama
The Captain of Köpenick (German: Der Hauptmann von Köpenick) is a satirical play by the German dramatist Carl Zuckmayer.First produced in 1931, the play tells the story, based on a true event that happened in 1906, of a down-on-his-luck ex-convict shoemaker (Wilhelm Voigt) who impersonates a Prussian Guards officer, holds the mayor of a small town to ransom, and successfully "confiscates ...
- John Clifford Mortimer, Carl Zuckmayer
- 1971
The Captain from Köpenick: Directed by Richard Oswald. With Max Adalbert, Ernst Dernburg, Willi Schur, Paul Wagner. A poor cobbler named Wilhelm Voigt purchased the second-hand uniform of a Prussian infantry captain.
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- Comedy
- Richard Oswald
- 1931-12-22
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.
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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.
