Hauptmann von Köpenick, Der
West Germany,
1956, 93 min
Shown in 1957
CREDITS
- dir
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Helmut Käutner
- prod
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Gyula Trebitsch
- scr
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Carl Zuckmayer, Helmut Käutner
- cam
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Albert Benitz
- editor
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Klaus Dudenhöfer
- mus
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Bernhard Eichhorn
- cast
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Heinz Ruhmann, Hannelore Schroth, Martin Held, Erich Schellow, Willy A. Kleinau, Ilse Furstenberg, Walter Giller, Friedrich Domin
- prod co
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Real-Film GmbH
- source
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Distributors Corporation of America Inc. (DCA)
- gga award
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Golden Gate Award Winner—Best Actor: Heinz Ruhmann
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COMMENTS
Shown Opening Night at the first Festival, December 4, 1957 at the Metro Theater, with Franchot Tone as Master of Ceremonies.
OTHER
Released after serving time for a petty crime, an impoverished shoemaker is keen to make a fresh start, but finds himself mired in bureaucracy until he stumbles across a second-hand captain’s uniform. He decides to wear the uniform and embarks on a quest to fool the entire German army. A true German classic and the Opening Night film of the San Francisco International Film Festival in 1957.
—Goethe Institute, San Francisco
FACTOID #162
The Stand-In (1985), Nina Takes a Lover (1994), Dream for an Insomniac (1996), Dream with the Fishes (1997), Teknolust (2002) and Dopamine(2003) were not only screened at Festival but were also shot in San Francisco.
