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Adaptations
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form
y
I Was A Criminal
Captain of Kopenick;
Passport to Heaven;
Great Awakening
( dir. Richard Oswald
)
United States of America (USA)
:
John Hall Productions
,
1945
6441733
1945
single work
film/TV
crime
historical fiction
'Based on the "Captain of Kopenick" incident of 1906, when an unemployed cobbler, in order to get a passport, dresses as a staff officer and takes over the town hall only to find it has no passport office. Because he is taken for a military officer everybody obeys him without question. His cheek ultimately gets him a passport.'
Source: British Film Institute (http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/248560). (Sighted: 17/9/2013)
Notes
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Der Hauptmann von Köpenick is included in AustLit because of an Australian-written adaptation.
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