The Captain from Köpenick (1956 film)
The Captain from 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 from Köpenick. It was nominated for the 29th Academy Awards in the category Best Foreign Language Film.
It was shot by Real Film at the Wandsbek Studios in Hamburg. The film's sets were designed by the art director Albrecht Becker and Herbert Kirchhoff.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 Hoprecht, Voigt's sister
- 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 in the categories Best Actor, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Film Architecture
- Bundesfilmpreis in the category Best Film Promoting Democracy
- Bundesfilmpreis 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
