''The Captain from Köpenick'' () is a 1926 German

silent film A silent film is a film without synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) or key lines of dialogue may, w ...

directed by Siegfried Dessauer and starring

Hermann Picha Hermann Picha (20 March 1865 – 7 June 1936) was a German stage and film actor. Picha was extremely prolific, appearing in over 300 short and feature films during the silent and early sound eras. Picha played a mixture of lead and supporting ...

Fritz Kampers Fritz Kampers (14 July 1891 – 1 September 1950) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 250 films between 1913 and 1950. Early life Fritz Kampers was the son of a Munich hotel owner, spent his early childhood in Garmisch-Partenk ...

, and

Gerhard Ritterband Gerhard Ritterband (1904–1959) was a German film actor.Hardt p.223 Selected filmography * '' The Doll'' (1919) * ''The Princess of the Nile'' (1920) * '' Va banque'' (1920) * '' A Day on Mars'' (1921) * '' Four Around a Woman'' (1921) * ''The D ...

.Kapczynski & Richardson p. 150 It is based on the case of

Wilhelm Voigt Wilhelm Voigt (13 February 1849 – 3 January 1922) was a German con man and impostor. In his most famous exploit, Voigt masqueraded as a military officer of the elite Prussian Guards in 1906, rounding up a number of Imperial German Army soldi ...

. The film's sets were designed by the

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Fritz Kraenke.

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* 1926 films German biographical films Biographical films about fraudsters Films of the Weimar Republic German silent feature films Films about con artists Films set in 1906 Films set in Berlin German black-and-white films Cultural depictions of Wilhelm Voigt 1920s German films 1920s German-language films Films scored by Felix Bartsch German-language biographical films {{1920s-Germany-silent-crime-film-stub

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