Toy Story 5
2026 · Animation · Family
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Film / 1939
Wibbel the Tailor
Directed by
Viktor de Kowa
During the Napoleonic occupation of the German states in 1812, a tailor by the name of Anton Wibbel is sentenced to sit in jail for insulting the Emperor. The tailor manages to get out of this by paying off a friend to go to prison in his place. But then, the "phony" prisoner suddenly dies in his cell and everyone now thinks Wibbel is dead.
The story
During the Napoleonic occupation of the German states in 1812, a tailor by the name of Anton Wibbel is sentenced to sit in jail for insulting the Emperor. The tailor manages to get out of this by paying off a friend to go to prison in his place. But then, the "phony" prisoner suddenly dies in his cell and everyone now thinks Wibbel is dead.
Cast
Erich PontoSchneider Anton Wibbel
Fita BenkhoffFin, seine Frau
Irene von MeyendorffKlementine
Friedrich BenferAndré
Günther LüdersSchneidergeselle Peter Zimpel
Hubert von MeyerinckKnillich
Lotte RauschMariechen
S.O. SchoeningPicard
Theo LucasMölfes
Ludwig SchmitzDrögendiek
Albert FlorathTotengräber
Eva TinschmannFrau Heubes
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Paul HeidemannKommissar
Rudolf Klein-RoggePangdich
Maria Krahn
Hans Hemes
Walter LieckFitzkes
Hans Adalbert SchlettowHeubes
Wolfgang Dohnberg
Robert Forsch
Artur Malkowsky
Albert Probeck
Max WilmsenKrönkel
Christine von TrümbachFrau Krönkel
Boris AlekinLouis
Else Beyer-Andrae
Elsa Dalands
Jac Diehl
Karl Heitmann
Hilde Munsch
Gerda Peter
Lucie Polzin
Ilse Pütz
Paul Rehkopf
Marga RiffaFrau Pangdich
Theodor Thony
Auguste Wanner-Kirsch
Franz Weber
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