
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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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

Joseph Offenbach as Wabschke

Ilse Fürstenberg as Marie Hoprecht, Voigts sister

Maria Sebaldt as Auguste Viktoria Wormser

Edith Hancke as Lieschen, das kranke Mädchen

Ethel Reschke as Pleureusenmieze

Siegfried Lowitz as Kassierer Rosenkranz

Willi Rose as Polizist

Willy Maertens as Prokurist Knell

Wolfgang Müller as Zuchthäusler Puhlke

Balduin Baas as ostpreußischer Grenadier

Reinhard Kolldehoff as Soldat
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