Fritz 9,945 Posted November 25, 2018 Share Posted November 25, 2018 Here is a great Klassiker by Carl Zuckmayer, the main rôle played by Heinz Rühmann, Berlin-Köpenick, 1905. From the novel based on the true story of Wilhelm Voigt, a shoemaker with a record as a petty criminal. How Voigt put on a Guards officer uniform (Hauptmann), stopped a small troop from the Garde-Füsilier-Regiment and ordered them to fall in, stopped a further detachment from the 4. Garde-Regiment, and marched off to the station, boarded a train and got off at Köpenick, marched to the Town Hall and occupied it, setting up posts without and within and demanded payment of the contents of the safe, whilst arresting the Mayor. In the end, when the authorities had realised what happened, he was arrested and imprisoned. He was also allowed to keep his uniform, which he had paid for, legally his "property". The Kaiser remarked with a hearty laugh, "In Preußen ist Recht und Ordnung. Das gibt's nur bei uns. Kein Volk dieser Erde macht uns das nach!" When His Majesty the Kaiser got to hear of this and heartily laughed, Voigt was immediately pardoned and released and given his papers, which he had always been longing for. He became the famed "Hauptmann von Köpenick". The lesson was, that people respect and obey the uniform and the authority behind it without limit. Production year, 1956: 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fritz 9,945 Posted December 10, 2018 Author Share Posted December 10, 2018 Text updated with an important and remarkable comment by the Kaiser! Scenes from the film Wilhelm Voigt and his partner plan to break into a police station to steal and forge documents Schuster Wilhelm Voigt is arrested while breaking into a police station Instruction hour in jail After being released from jail, the shoemaker is allowed to stay for a while with his sister and her husband. The Bürgermeister of Köpenick, also a Reserve Officer, about to depart for the Kaisermanöver. The original source of the uniform: Militair-Ausstatter Wörmser, Potsdam Released from jail, the "Hauptmann" buys himself a used uniform from a rag dealer from Böhmen The "Hauptmann" encounters and halts a small troop on the march and orders them to fall in and follow him... Now as the "Hauptmann von Köpenick" entering the Town Hall of Köpenick to arrest the mayor and demand the surrender of the Town Treasury. Der Hauptmann announces his presence and that the Mayor is now under arrest... The Mayor tries to telephone but is not permitted... You don't get paid for sleeping! Who is in charge here? Happy end, the Kaiser intervenes: "Kein Volk dieser Erde macht uns das nach!" (Majestät haben gelacht), and the shoemaker is pardoned and released from prison 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fritz 9,945 Posted January 31, 2019 Author Share Posted January 31, 2019 Film has disappeared again. Here is the trailer, which I hope is a more permanent link. A film really worth seeing, which is an accurate if humoristic portrait of the military in the pre-war Kaisers days. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fritz 9,945 Posted October 16, 2019 Author Share Posted October 16, 2019 Köpenick today, the town hall with bronze statue... The grave of the "false Hauptmann" (+1922) in Luxembourg 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fritz 9,945 Posted November 29, 2020 Author Share Posted November 29, 2020 Cast and many new photos added! Heinz Rühmann: Wilhelm Voigt Martin Held: Bürgermeister Dr. Obermüller Hannelore Schroth: Mathilde Obermüller Willy A. Kleinau: Friedrich Hoprecht Leonard Steckel: Adolph Wormser Friedrich Domin: Zuchthausdirektor Erich Schellow: Hauptmann von Schlettow Walter Giller: Willy Wormser Wolfgang Neuss: Zuchthäusler Kallenberg Bum Krüger: Schutzmann Kilian Josef Offenbach: Wabschke Ilse Fürstenberg: Marie Hoprecht, Voigts Schwester Maria Sebaldt: Auguste Viktoria Wormser Edith Hancke: Lieschen, das kranke Mädchen Ethel Reschke: Pleureusenmieze Siegfried Lowitz: Kassierer Rosenkranz Kurt Fuß: Schauspieler Willi Rose: Polizeiwachtmeister Karl Hellmer: Nowak Willy Maertens: Prokurist Knell Robert Meyn: Polizeipräsident von Jagow Otto Wernicke: Schuhmachermeister Reinhold Kolldehoff: Betrunkener Soldat Ludwig Linkmann: Betrunkener Kurt Klopsch: Polizei-Inspektor von Köpenick Wolfgang Müller: Zuchthäusler Puhlke Helmuth Gmelin: Kürassier-Kommandeur Rudolf Fenner: Oberwachtmeister Reinhold Nietschmann: Jutta Zech: Balduin Baas: ostpreußischer Grenadier Jochen Blume: Kommissar Peter Frank: Peter Ahrweiler: Gefängnisgeistlicher Joachim Wolff: Bahnbeamter Jochen Meyn: Schleinitz Erich Weiher: Schultheiß Werner Schumacher: Gefreiter Holger Hagen: Dr. Jellinek Joachim Hess: Gefreiter Eddi Thomalla: Bahnbeamter 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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