

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...
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Cast

Heinz Rühmann
Wilhelm Voigt

Martin Held
Dr. Obermüller

Hannelore Schroth
Mathilde Obermüller

Willy A. Kleinau
Friedrich Hoprecht

Leonard Steckel
Adolph Wormser

Friedrich Domin
Zuchthausdirektor

Erich Schellow
Capt. von Schlettow

Walter Giller
Willy Wormser

Wolfgang Neuss
Zuchthäusler Kallenberg

Bum Krüger
Schutzmann Kilian

Joseph Offenbach
Wabschke
Ilse Fürstenberg
Marie Hoprecht, Voigts sister
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