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The Captain from Kpenick (1956 film)
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Wikipedia article
'The Captain from Kpenick' is a 1956 West German film directed by Helmut Kutner and based upon the 1931 play 'The Captain of Kpenick' by Carl Zuckmayer. The play was based on the true story of Wilhelm Voigt, a German impostor who masqueraded as a Prussian military officer in 1906 and became famous as the Captain from Kpenick. It was nominated for the 29th Academy Awards in the category Best Foreign Language Film.
It was shot by Real Film at the Wandsbek Studios in Hamburg. The film's sets were designed by the art director Albrecht Becker and Herbert Kirchhoff.
Cast
*Heinz Rhmann as Wilhelm Voigt
*Martin Held as Dr. Obermller
*Hannelore Schroth as Mathilde Obermller
*Willy A. Kleinau as Friedrich Hoprecht
*Leonard Steckel as Adolph Wormser
*Friedrich Domin as Jail Director
*Erich Schellow as Capt. von Schlettow
*Walter Giller as Willy Wormser
*Wolfgang Neuss as Kallenberg
*Bum Krger as Schutzmann Kilian
*Joseph Offenbach as Wabschke
*Ilse Frstenberg as Marie Hoprecht, Voigt's sister
*Maria Sebaldt as Auguste Viktoria Wormser, seine Tochter
*Edith Hancke as Sick girl
*Ethel Reschke as Pleureusenmieze
*Siegfried Lowitz as Stadtkmmerer Rosenkranz
*Willi Rose as Police sergeant
*Willy Maertens as Prokurist Knell
*Kurt Fu
*Karl Hellmer as Nowak
*Robert Meyn as Polizeiprsident von Jagow
*Otto Wernicke as Schuhmachermeister
*Ludwig Linkmann as Betrunkener Zivilist
*Wolfgang Mller
*Rudolf Fenner as Polizeioberwachtmeister in Potsdam
*Reinhard Kolldehoff as Drunken soldier
*Kurt Klopsch as Polizei-Inspektor von Kpenick
*Helmut Gmelin as Krassier-Oberst
*Reinhold Nietschmann
*Jutta Zech
*Jochen Blume as Pa-Kommissar
*Peter Ahrweiler as Anstaltsgeistlicher
*Jochen Meyn as Von Schleinitz
*Werner Schumacher as 2.Gefreiter
*Joachim Hess as 1.Gefreiter
*Balduin Baas as Ostpreuischer Grenadier
*Peter Franz
*Joachim Wolff as 2.Bahnbeamter
*Erich Weiher as Dorfschulze
*Holger Hagen as Dr. Jellinek
*Eddi Thomalla as 1. Bahnbeamter
Awards
* Nominated for the 29th Academy Awards in the category Best Foreign Language Film
* Bundesfilmpreis (Filmband in Gold) in the categories Best Actor, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Film Architecture
* Bundesfilmpreis (Filmband in Silber) in the category Best Film Promoting Democracy
* Bundesfilmpreis (Goldene Schale) in the category Best Feature Film
* Bambi in the categories Best Film and Most Commercially Successful Film
* Preis der deutschen Filmkritik
* Price of the Berlin Film Critics Association for Heinz Rhmann
* Special Merit recognition by the Filmbewertungsstelle Wiesbaden
* Screened at the Venice Film Festival, the Edinburgh International Film Festival and the San Francisco International Film Festival
See also
* Wilhelm Voigt
* Der Hauptmann von Kpenick (disambiguation)
* List of submissions to the 29th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
* List of German submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
* The Captain from Kpenick (1926 film)
* The Captain from Kpenick (1931 film)
* The Captain from Kpenick (1945 film)
* Der Hauptmann von Kpenick (1997 film)
References
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