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

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