The robber captain of Koepenick and his pardon

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Voigt leaves the Tegel prison

The robber captain von Köpenick and his pardon is the title of a German silent film report from 1908.

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The film was produced by the Internationale Kinematographen- und Lichteffekt GmbH Berlin in one act at 50 meters, which corresponds to about three minutes. Karl Jaensch and Franz Mletzko acted as cameramen . The film was shot in front of the Tegel prison . The film shows authentic pictures of the shoemaker Wilhelm Voigt on the day of his release from prison on August 16, 1908. The day before, a pardon was signed by Kaiser Wilhelm II . The Berlin police banned the film on November 16, 1908. Other film companies, such as Alfred Duskes' and Deutsche Bioscop's, produced similar reports, but it could not be determined whether this was also banned.

See also

literature

  • Gerhard Lamprecht: German Silent Films 1903-1912, Deutsche Kinemathek eV., Berlin, 1969

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Film length calculator , frame rate : 16 2/3