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The Captain from Köpenick is a film of genre Comedy directed by Richard Oswald with Max Adalbert

The Captain from Köpenick (1931)

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Length 1h47
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Genres Comedy
Rating70% 3.5296753.5296753.5296753.5296753.529675

The Captain from Köpenick (German: Der Hauptmann von Köpenick) is a 1931 German comedy film directed by Richard Oswald and produced by Gabriel Pascal. It is one of several films based on the 1931 play by the same name written by Carl Zuckmayer. The story centers on the Hauptmann von Köpenick affair in 1906.

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Der Hauptmann von Köpenick is based on a true story that took place in Germany in 1906. A poor cobbler named Wilhelm Voigt purchased the second-hand uniform of a Prussian infantry captain. Wearing this, he travelled to the borough of Köpenick and ordered a troop of guardsmen to place themselves under his command. He then declared the town hall to be under military law, ordering the arrest of the mayor and treasurer and confiscating all the funds in the exchequer. In this film version it's a considerable sum of 4,000 reichsmarks. Voigt's orders were obeyed without question and he temporarily got away with the caper, although he was eventually caught.

Actors

Max Adalbert

(Wilhelm Voigt)Paul Otto
Max Gülstorff

(Bürgermeister Dr. Obermüller)Käthe Haack

(Mathilde Obermüller)Friedrich Kayßler

(Friedrich Hoprecht)
And :
Hans Leibelt
Willi Schur
Albert Florath
Fritz Odemar
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