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
Reinhard Kolldehoff
Soldat
Walter Giller
Willy Wormser
Heinz Rühmann
Wilhelm Voigt
Maria Sebaldt
Auguste Viktoria Wormser
Martin Held
Dr. Obermüller
Siegfried Lowitz
Kassierer Rosenkranz
Edith Hancke
Lieschen, das kranke Mädchen
Hannelore Schroth
Mathilde Obermüller
Bum Krüger
Schutzmann Kilian
Wolfgang Neuss
Zuchthäusler Kallenberg
Balduin Baas
ostpreußischer Grenadier
Willi Rose
Polizist
Joseph Offenbach
Wabschke
Friedrich Domin
Zuchthausdirektor
Leonard Steckel
Adolph Wormser
Willy A. Kleinau
Friedrich Hoprecht
Ethel Reschke
Pleureusenmieze
Wolfgang Müller
Zuchthäusler Puhlke
Erich Schellow
Capt. von Schlettow
Willy Maertens
Prokurist Knell
Ilse Fürstenberg
Marie Hoprecht, Voigts sister

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