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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