Das Kleid

Das Kleid

88 mins | Comedy, Fantasy | Aug. 15, 1961

Poor weavers Hans (Horst Drinda) und Kumpan (Werner Lierck) try to enter a town surrounded by a tall, impenetrable wall, where everyone is apparently very happy. When they finally make it inside, the tyrannical Emperor Max demands they make him new clothes that would "bring all creatures to their knees." Hans and Kumpan claim only intelligent people can see the robe, and in order to prove himself clever, the emperor haughtily displays himself before his subjects wearing his new invisible regalia.

Das Kleid

88 mins | Comedy, Fantasy | Aug. 15, 1961

Das Kleid
Poor weavers Hans (Horst Drinda) und Kumpan (Werner Lierck) try to enter a town surrounded by a tall, impenetrable wall, where everyone is apparently very happy. When they finally make it inside, the tyrannical Emperor Max demands they make him new clothes that would "bring all creatures to their knees." Hans and Kumpan claim only intelligent people can see the robe, and in order to prove himself clever, the emperor haughtily displays himself before his subjects wearing his new invisible regalia.
Producers DEFA
Original title Das Kleid
Directors Egon Günther, Konrad Petzold
Writers Hans Christian Andersen, Egon Günther

Cast

Wolf Kaiser

as Kaiser Max

Horst Drinda

as Hans

Werner Lierck

as Kumpan

Eva-Maria Hagen

as Katrin

Günther Simon

as Fleischer

Lore Frisch

as Bekleidungsministerin

Kurt Rackelmann

as Innenminister

Gerd E. Schäfer

as Außenminister

Erik S. Klein

as Küchenminister

Gerry Wolff

as Justiz

Hannes Fischer

as der Dicke

Harry Riebauer

as der Dünne

Ernst-Georg Schwill

as Zwiebel

Gerhard Rachold

as Latte

Hans Klering

as Holzauge

Harry Gillmann

as Schnapsnase

Nico Turoff

as Wachsoldat

Axel Triebel

as Wachsoldat Schmalzrübe

Fritz Mohr

as Wachsoldat

Horst Kube

as Torwächter

Gerhard Moebius

as Vorgesetzter

Theo Mack

as Ausrufer

Walter E. Fuß

as Bäcker