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The film is a phenomenon: a biting satire on bureaucracy and narrow-minded bureaucracy, thus on the administration, thus on the government—and all this in 1944-1945.
"Der Mann, dem man den Namen stahl" (1944), also known as "The Man Whose Name Was Stolen," is a German comedy film directed by Wolfgang Staudte about a man named Fridolin Biedermann. He is the victim of identity theft when a con man steals his wallet containing his documents. The con man then uses these documents to commit fraud and bigamy.
The film is a phenomenon: a biting satire on bureaucracy and narrow-minded bureaucracy, thus on the administration, thus on the government—and all this in 1944-1945.
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