The Captain from Köpenick (1956 film)

The Captain from Köpenick Der Hauptmann von Köpenick
File:The Captain From Koepenick - half sheet.jpg Theatrical release poster by Tom Jung
Directed by	Helmut Käutner
Produced by	Gyula Trebitsch (producer)
Written by	Helmut Käutner Carl Zuckmayer (play) Carl Zuckmayer (screenplay)
Starring	Heinz Rühmann Hannelore Schroth Martin Held Erich Schellow
Music by	Bernhard Eichhorn
Cinematography	Albert Benitz
Edited by	Klaus Dudenhöfer
Distributed by	Real-Film Distributors Corporation of America (US)
Release dates	August 16, 1956 (1956-08-16) Ufa-Palast Cologne
Running time	93 minutes
Country	West Germany
Language	German

The Captain from Köpenick (German: Der Hauptmann von Köpenick) is a 1956 West German film directed by Helmut Käutner and based upon the 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 of Köpenick. It was nominated for the 29th Academy Awards in the category Best Foreign Language Film.

Cast

• Heinz Rühmann as Wilhelm Voigt
• Martin Held as Dr. Obermüller
• Hannelore Schroth as Mathilde Obermüller
• Willy A. Kleinau as Friedrich Hoprecht
• Leonard Steckel as Adolph Wormser
• Friedrich Domin as Jail Director
• Erich Schellow as Capt. von Schlettow
• Walter Giller as Willy Wormser
• Wolfgang Neuss as Kallenberg
• Bum Krüger as Schutzmann Kilian
• Joseph Offenbach as Wabschke
• Ilse Fürstenberg as Marie Hoöprechtr, Voigts Schwester
• Maria Sebaldt as Auguste Viktoria Wormser, seine Tochter
• Edith Hancke as Sick girl
• Ethel Reschke as Pleureusenmieze
• Siegfried Lowitz as Stadtkämmerer Rosenkranz
• Willi Rose as Police sergeant
• Willy Maertens as Prokurist Knell
• Kurt Fuß
• Karl Hellmer as Nowak
• Robert Meyn as Polizeipräsident von Jagow
• Otto Wernicke as Schuhmachermeister
• Ludwig Linkmann as Betrunkener Zivilist
• Wolfgang Müller
• Rudolf Fenner as Polizeioberwachtmeister in Potsdam
• Reinhard Kolldehoff as Drunken soldier
• Kurt Klopsch as Polizei-Inspektor von Köpenick
• Helmut Gmelin as Kürassier-Oberst
• Reinhold Nietschmann
• Jutta Zech
• Jochen Blume as Paß-Kommissar
• Peter Ahrweiler as Anstaltsgeistlicher
• Jochen Meyn as Von Schleinitz
• Werner Schumacher as 2.Gefreiter
• Joachim Hess as 1.Gefreiter
• Balduin Baas as Ostpreußischer Grenadier
• Peter Franz
• Joachim Wolff as 2.Bahnbeamter
• Erich Weiher as Dorfschulze
• Holger Hagen as Dr. Jellinek
• Eddi Thomalla as 1. Bahnbeamter

Awards

• Nominated for the 29th Academy Awards in the category Best Foreign Language Film
• Bundesfilmpreis (Filmband in Gold) in the categories Best Actor, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Film Architecture
• Bundesfilmpreis (Filmband in Silber) in the category Best Film Promoting Democracy
• Bundesfilmpreis (Goldene Schale) in the category Best Feature Film
• Bambi in the categories Best Film and Most Commercially Successful Film
• Preis der deutschen Filmkritik
• Price of the Berlin Film Critics Association for Heinz Rühmann
• Special Merit recognition by the Filmbewertungsstelle Wiesbaden
• Screened at the Venice Film Festival, the Edinburgh International Film Festival and the San Francisco International Film Festival

See also

• Wilhelm Voigt
• Der Hauptmann von Köpenick (disambiguation)
• List of submissions to the 29th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
• List of German submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

External links

• Der Hauptmann von Köpenick at IMDb
• The Captain from Köpenick is available for free download at the Internet Archive
• Der Hauptmann von Köpenick at Filmportal.de (German)