I Was a Criminal (1945)

Directors

Richard Oswald

Cast

Albert Bassermann, Mary Brian, Eric Blore, Herman Bing

The story

thumb|A statue of Wilhelm Voigt as the Captain of Köpenick at Köpenick city hall thumb|German postage stamp, 2006 Shoemaker Wilhelm Voigt is released from prison after many years of hard labor. His freedom is new to him, and as he tries to navigate this strange new world, he promptly finds himself in the midst of a Prussian catch-22: To get a residence permit (passport), he must have a job, but he can only get a job if he has a residence permit. No one in the Prussian-German bureaucracy feels compelled to help him; everything must go by the book.

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