Comedy Drama
A young shoemaker is arrested for stealing a small amount of money, and is jailed for fifteen years. Upon his release, he wants to get a permit to get a job and start anew, but finds that without a job he can't get a permit, and without a permit he can't get a job. Ensnared in the absurd net of Prussian bureaucracy, he can't see any way out. That is, until he enters a thrift shop and spots a Prussian officer's uniform that fits him like a second skin...
Directed by
Helmut Käutner
Balduin Baas
ostpreußischer Grenadier
Leonard Steckel
Adolph Wormser
Maria Sebaldt
Auguste Viktoria Wormser
Siegfried Lowitz
Kassierer Rosenkranz
Heinz Rühmann
Wilhelm Voigt
Friedrich Domin
Zuchthausdirektor
Willy A. Kleinau
Friedrich Hoprecht
Reinhard Kolldehoff
Soldat
Ethel Reschke
Pleureusenmieze
Walter Giller
Willy Wormser
Edith Hancke
Lieschen, das kranke Mädchen
Wolfgang Müller
Zuchthäusler Puhlke
Bum Krüger
Schutzmann Kilian
Willy Maertens
Prokurist Knell
Martin Held
Dr. Obermüller
Hannelore Schroth
Mathilde Obermüller
Erich Schellow
Capt. von Schlettow
Wolfgang Neuss
Zuchthäusler Kallenberg
Willi Rose
Polizist
Joseph Offenbach
Wabschke
Ilse Fürstenberg
Marie Hoprecht, Voigts sister

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