Cast

• Heinz Rühmann
  Heinz Rühmann
  Heinrich Wilhelm "Heinz" Rühmann was a popular German film actor.-Life and work:Rühmann was born in Essen, Westphalia. His role in the 1930 movie Die Drei von der Tankstelle led him to film stardom. He remained highly popular as a comedic actor throughout the 1930s and early 1940s...
  
   as Wilhelm Voigt
  Wilhelm Voigt
  Friedrich Wilhelm Voigt was a German impostor who masqueraded as a Prussian military officer in 1906 and became famous as The Captain of Köpenick ....
  
  
• Martin Held
  Martin Held
  -Selected filmography:* Canaris Master Spy * Spy for Germany * The Last Witness * Terror After Midnight * Main Thing Holidays * Le serpent -External links:...
  
   as Dr. Obermüller
• Hannelore Schroth
  Hannelore Schroth
  Hannelore Schroth was German film, stage and television actress whose career spanned over five decades.-Career:...
  
   as Mathilde Obermüller
• Willy A. Kleinau
  Willy A. Kleinau
  -Selected filmography:* Das Fräulein von Scuderi * The Czar and the Carpenter * Winter in the Woods * Der Hauptmann von Köpenick * Frühling in Berlin...
  
   as Friedrich Hoprecht
• Leonard Steckel
  Leonard Steckel
  Leonard Steckel was a German actor and director of stage and screen. He began his career as a stage actor, and spent the duration of World War II in exile in Zürich, where he had gone to work at the Schauspielhaus...
  
   as Adolph Wormser
• Friedrich Domin
  Friedrich Domin
  Friedrich Domin was a German film actor. He appeared in 63 films between 1939 and 1961.He was born in Beuthen, Germany and died in Munich, Germany.-Selected filmography:* The Comedians...
  
   as Jail Director
• Erich Schellow as Capt. von Schlettow
• Walter Giller
  Walter Giller
  Walter Giller is a German actor.He has been married since 1956 to actress Nadja Tiller.On August 6, 2009, he was diagonosed with lung cancer. He underwent a major operation...
  
   as Willy Wormser
• Wolfgang Neuss as Kallenberg
• Bum Krüger as Schutzmann Kilian
• Joseph Offenbach as Wabschke
• Ilse Fürstenberg as Marie Hoöprechtr, Voigts Schwester
• Maria Sebaldt
  Maria Sebaldt
  -Selected filmography:* The Little Czar * Mädchen ohne Grenzen * Charley's Aunt * Los Pistoleros de Arizona -External links:...
  
   as Auguste Viktoria Wormser, seine Tochter
• Edith Hancke as Sick girl
• Ethel Reschke as Pleureusenmieze
• Siegfried Lowitz
  Siegfried Lowitz
  Siegfried Lowitz was a German actor who is most famous for playing Hauptkommissar Erwin Köster in the German television drama Der Alte....
  
   as Stadtkämmerer Rosenkranz
• Willi Rose as Police sergeant
• Willy Maertens as Prokurist Knell
• Kurt Fuß
• Karl Hellmer
  Karl Hellmer
  Karl Hellmer was an Austrian film actor. He appeared in 92 films between 1932 and 1969.He was born in Vienna, Austria and died in Berlin, Germany.-Selected filmography:* Ungeküsst soll man nicht schlafen gehn...
  
   as Nowak
• Robert Meyn as Polizeipräsident von Jagow
• Otto Wernicke
  Otto Wernicke
  Otto Karl Robert Wernicke was a German actor. He was best known for his role as police inspector Karl Lohmann in the two Fritz Lang films M and The Testament of Dr. Mabuse. He was the first one to portray Captain Smith in the first "official" Titanic film.Wernicke was married to a Jewish woman...
  
   as Schuhmachermeister
• Ludwig Linkmann as Betrunkener Zivilist
• Wolfgang Müller
  Wolfgang Müller
  Wolfgang Müller is a German artist, musician and writer, based in Berlin, Germany and Reykjavík, Iceland.Müller is the founder of the Berlin based multi-media performance art group Die Tödliche Doris...
  
  
• Rudolf Fenner as Polizeioberwachtmeister in Potsdam
• Reinhard Kolldehoff
  Reinhard Kolldehoff
  Reinhard Kolldehoff was a German film actor. He appeared in 140 films between 1941 and 1988.He was born and died in Berlin, Germany.-Selected filmography:* Bürgermeister Anna * Hanussen...
  
   as Drunken soldier
• Kurt Klopsch as Polizei-Inspektor von Köpenick
• Helmut Gmelin as Kürassier-Oberst
• Reinhold Nietschmann
• Jutta Zech
• Jochen Blume as Paß-Kommissar
• Peter Ahrweiler as Anstaltsgeistlicher
• Jochen Meyn as Von Schleinitz
• Werner Schumacher
  Werner Schumacher
  Werner Schumacher was a German actor. From 1971 until 1986 he starred in the Süddeutscher Rundfunk version of the popular television crime series Tatort.-References:...
  
   as 2.Gefreiter
• Joachim Hess as 1.Gefreiter
• Balduin Baas
  Balduin Baas
  Balduin Baas was a German actor. He appeared in 77 films and television shows between 1956 and 2002.-Selected filmography:* Orchestra Rehearsal...
  
   as Ostpreußischer 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
  29th Academy Awards
  During the 29th Academy Awards, the regular competitive category of Best Foreign Language Film was introduced, instead of only being recognized as a Special Achievement Award or as a Best Picture nominee . The first winner in this new category was Federico Fellini's La strada with Anthony Quinn and...
  
   in the category Best Foreign Language Film
  Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
  The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the Academy Awards of Merit, popularly known as the Oscars, handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...
  
  
• 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
  Bambi (prize)
  The Bambi - Deutschlands Wichtigster Medienpreis, often simply called Bambi Awards and stylized as BAMBI, are presented annually by Hubert Burda Media to recognize excellence in international media and television "with vision and creativity who affected and inspired the German public that year",...
  
   in the categories Best Film and Most Commercially Successful Film
• Preis der deutschen Filmkritik
• Price of the Berlin Film Critics Association for Heinz Rühmann
  Heinz Rühmann
  Heinrich Wilhelm "Heinz" Rühmann was a popular German film actor.-Life and work:Rühmann was born in Essen, Westphalia. His role in the 1930 movie Die Drei von der Tankstelle led him to film stardom. He remained highly popular as a comedic actor throughout the 1930s and early 1940s...
  
  
• Special Merit recognition by the Filmbewertungsstelle Wiesbaden
  Wiesbaden
  Wiesbaden is a city in southwest Germany and the capital of the federal state of Hesse. It has about 275,400 inhabitants, plus approximately 10,000 United States citizens...
  
  
• Screened at the Venice Film Festival
  Venice Film Festival
  The Venice International Film Festival is the oldest international film festival in the world. Founded by Count Giuseppe Volpi in 1932 as the "Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica", the festival has since taken place every year in late August or early September on the island of the...
  
  , the Edinburgh International Film Festival
  Edinburgh International Film Festival
  The Edinburgh International Film Festival is an annual fortnight of cinema screenings and related events taking place each June. Established in 1947, it is the world's oldest continually running film festival...
  
   and the San Francisco International Film Festival
  San Francisco International Film Festival
  San Francisco International Film Festival is the oldest continuously running film festival in the Americas. Organized by the San Francisco Film Society, the International is held each spring for two weeks, presenting an average of 150 films from over 50 countries...
  
  

See also

• The Captain from Köpenick (1931 film)
• 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

External links

• Der Hauptmann von Köpenick at Filmportal.de