Clothes Make the Man

Clothes Make the Man

100 mins | Drama, Comedy | Sept. 16, 1940

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.

Clothes Make the Man

100 mins | Drama, Comedy | Sept. 16, 1940

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.
IMDb rating 6.6
Producers Terra-Filmkunst
Original title Kleider machen Leute
Directors Helmut Käutner
Writers Gottfried Keller, Helmut Käutner

Cast

Heinz Rühmann

as Schneidergeselle Wenzel

Hertha Feiler

as Nettchen

Fritz Odemar

as Graf Stroganoff

Hilde Sessak

as Fräulein von Serafin

Rudolf Schündler

as Schneider Melcher Böhni

Erich Ponto

as Puppenspieler Christoffel

Aribert Wäscher

as Händler Nievergelt

Hans Sternberg

as Amtsrat und Tuchherr Küchlin

Hans Stiebner

as Gastwirt der 'Waage' in Goldach

Helmut Weiss

as Herr Häberlin jun.

Olga Limburg

as Begleiterin des Fräulein von Serafin