Overview
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...
Cast
- Heinz Rühmann as Wilhelm Voigt
- Martin Held as Dr. Obermüller
- Hannelore Schroth as Mathilde Obermüller
- Willy A. Kleinau as Friedrich Hoprecht
- Leonard Steckel as Adolph Wormser
- Friedrich Domin as Zuchthausdirektor
- Erich Schellow as Capt. von Schlettow
- Walter Giller as Willy Wormser
- Wolfgang Neuss as Zuchthäusler Kallenberg
- Bum Krüger as Schutzmann Kilian