Word: koepenick
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...Captain from Koepenick (Real-Film; D.C.A.) is a dandy German joke that manages to be only intermittently funny. Now undergoing its third version as a movie, the film is derived from a 1931 play by Carl (The Blue Angel) Zuckmayer, who co-authored the present screenplay. It is the story of a lonely, jobless German shoemaker whose drab world turns into a fairyland of wealth, popularity and authority as soon as he dons the dashing and highly illegal uniform of an army captain...
Zuckmayer's true tale springs from the celebrated saga of Wilhelm Voigt, a turn-of-the-century cobbler who lived near Koepenick, a little town eight miles from
...days later the CRIMSON ran its first review of a Brattle movie--it was Captain from Koepenick--and began a four-year history of weekly praising and blaming, encouraging and maligning, which indicates that the Brattle Theatre is regarded almost as the special property of the Harvard community and can expect to be encouraged, or excoriated according to the way the current film happens to strike the reviewer...
...Captain from Koepenick heartily tweaks the nose of the German military. In fact, the film pinches so sharply that Hitler banned...
...Chaplinesque plot begins very slowly with an ex-convict deprived of employment and his passport. Desperate, the little man buys a Captain's uniform, storms into Koepenick, and seizes the Town Hall. Always jibing at stuffy authoritarian, the ersatz Captain imprisons even Mayor Obermculler, a stout buffoon played by Max Guelstorff. The mayor knows nothing of his offense, but there can be no injustice under Germany's martial law and order. He salutes and plods to jail...