The Captain from Kopenick

Year: 1956

Runtime: 93 mins

Language: German

Director: Helmut Käutner

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After a fifteen‑year prison term for stealing a tiny sum, a young shoemaker seeks a work permit, only to discover he needs a job to obtain one and a job to get a permit. Trapped in the Kafkaesque Prussian bureaucracy, he finds a solution when a thrift‑shop uniform of a Prussian officer fits him perfectly, allowing him to masquerade as an authority.

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