Heinz Rühmann
Wilhelm Voigt
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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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- Comedy, Drama
- Helmut Käutner
- 1956-08-16
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 ...
The play has been adapted for film and television many times: The Captain from Köpenick (1926), a German film directed by Siegfried Dessauer and starring Hermann Picha. The Captain from Köpenick (1931), a German film directed by Richard Oswald, starring Max Adalbert and Paul Wagner.
- John Clifford Mortimer, Carl Zuckmayer
- 1971
The Captain from Köpenick, also known as I Was a Criminal and Passport to Heaven, is a 1945 American comedy film directed by Richard Oswald and based upon the 1931 play The Captain of Köpenick by Carl Zuckmayer and Albright Joseph. The play was based on the true story of Wilhelm Voigt, a German ex-convict who masqueraded as a Prussian ...
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. Wearing this, he traveled to the borough of Köpenick and ordered a troop of guardsmen to place themselves under his command.
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- Comedy
- Richard Oswald
- 1931-12-22
In the Prussia of Kaiser Wilhelm II, cobbler Wilhelm Voigt (Heinz Ruehmann) discovers he has lost his identity card, which is required to get work. Because he has served time in prison, Wilhelm's...
- Comedy, Drama
Mar 4, 2020 · The Captain of Köpenick was the center of drama to the last—and well beyond. As the funeral procession was on its way to reinter Voigt’s remains at his new resting place in the Notre-Dame cemetery, it passed a platoon of French soldiers, and a member of the funeral cortège informed its commanding officer that the famous Captain of ...
