The Captain from Köpenick (1956 film)

The Captain from Köpenick
Der Hauptmann von Köpenick
The Captain from Köpenick; Der Hauptmann von Köpenick
	Theatrical release poster by Tom Jung
Directed by	Helmut Käutner
Written by	Helmut Käutner; Carl Zuckmayer (play); Carl Zuckmayer (screenplay)
Produced by	Gyula Trebitsch (producer)
Starring	Heinz Rühmann; Hannelore Schroth; Martin Held; Erich Schellow
Cinematography	Albert Benitz
Edited by	Klaus Dudenhöfer
Music by	Bernhard Eichhorn
Distributed by	Real-Film ; Distributors Corporation of America (US)
Release date	16 August 1956; 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 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
Karl Hellmer as Nowak
Robert Meyn as Polizeipräsident von Jagow
Otto Wernicke as Schuhmachermeister
as Betrunkener Zivilist
as Polizeioberwachtmeister in Potsdam
Reinhard Kolldehoff as Drunken soldier
as Polizei-Inspektor von Köpenick
as Kürassier-Oberst
as Paß-Kommissar
Peter Ahrweiler as Anstaltsgeistlicher
as Von Schleinitz
Werner Schumacher as 2.Gefreiter
as 1.Gefreiter
Balduin Baas as Ostpreußischer Grenadier
Peter Franz
as 2.Bahnbeamter
as Dorfschulze
as Dr. Jellinek
as 1. Bahnbeamter

Awards[]

Nominated for the 29th Academy Awards in the category Best Foreign Language Film^[1]
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

References[]

^ "The 29th Academy Awards (1957) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-10-24.

External links[]

[Oscars1957-1] "The 29th Academy Awards (1957) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-10-24.

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The Captain from Köpenick (1956 film)

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