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Clothes Make the Man(Movie, 1940)

Original title: "Kleider machen Leute" (German/DE)
1h 40min | Genres: Comedy, Drama
Clothes Make the ManRating: 3.4/5 (with 55 votes)
Clothes Make the Man (German: Kleider machen Leute) is a 1940 German historical comedy film directed by Helmut Käutner and starring Heinz Rühmann, Hertha Feiler and Hilde Sessak. The film is based on the Novella Kleider machen Leute, published by realist author Gottfried Keller in 1874. It was shot at the Barrandov Studios in German-occupied Prague as well as at the Babelsberg and Tempelhof Studios in Berlin. ()
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About Clothes Make the Man

The daydreaming tailor Wenzel is fired from his job, because the fancy frock he was supposed to cut for the mayor, he instead made for himself. He is allowed, however, to take the frock, which he appropriated for himself and he puts it on as he leaves the shop. A puppeteer picks him up in his coach and addresses Wenzel as "Count". So is he received in Goldach, where people think he is Count Stroganoff, the ambassador to the Czar of Russia.

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Additional Information

Production country: Germany
Original language: German (DE)
Spoken languages: German (DE)
Translated into 3 languages: German (DE), English (EN), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date US: 09/16/1940
Producer: Heinz Rühmann
Screenwriter: Helmut Käutner
Director of Photography: Ewald Daub
Color: Black & White (B/W)

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Other movies with this title: Clothes Make the Man (AT/DE, 1921), Clothes Make the Man (DE, 1963)

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