Clothes Make the Man (1940 film)
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| German | Kleider machen Leute |
| Directed by | Helmut Käutner |
| Written by | Helmut Käutner |
| Based on | Clothes Make the Man by Gottfried Keller |
| Produced by | Artur Kiekebusch-Brenken |
| Starring | Heinz Rühmann Hertha Feiler Hilde Sessak |
| Cinematography | Ewald Daub |
| Edited by | Helmuth Schönnenbeck |
| Music by | Bernhard Eichhorn |
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| Distributed by | Terra Film |
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Running time | 91 minutes |
| Country | Germany |
| Language | German |
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.[1] 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.
Cast
[edit]- Heinz Rühmann as Wenzel
- Hertha Feiler as Annette "Nettchen" Putschli
- Hilde Sessak as Amalia von Serafin
- Fritz Odemar as Count Stroganoff
- Rudolf Schündler as Melchior Böhni, the tailor
- Franz Stein as Herr Putschli
- Hans Stiebner as the innkeeper
- Helmut Weiss as Herr Häberlin
- Aribert Wäscher as Herr Nievergelt
- Hans Sternberg as the district administrator
- Franz Weber as Huerli, the master-tailor
- Erwin Hoffmann as Wenzel's Fellow Seamster
- Erich Ponto as Christoffel
- Leopold von Ledebur as the mayor
- Olga Limburg as Amalia's chaperone
- Joe Furtner as the coachman
- Klaus Pohl as the beggar
Release
[edit]The film was released in the USA only in 1958, in German but with no subtitles.
Reception
[edit]Thomas Kramer of the Reclams Lexikon of the German Films
References
[edit]- ^ Hull, David Stewart (1969). Film in the Third Reich: A Study of the German Cinema, 1933–1945. Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 235. ISBN 978-0-520-01489-3.
External links
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- 1940 films
- Films of Nazi Germany
- Films directed by Helmut Käutner
- Films based on Swiss novels
- Films based on works by Gottfried Keller
- Films set in the 1830s
- Films about con artists
- 1940s historical comedy films
- German historical comedy films
- Films shot at Barrandov Studios
- Films shot at Babelsberg Studios
- Films shot at Tempelhof Studios
- Terra Film films
- German black-and-white films
- 1940s German-language films
- 1940s German films
- Films scored by Bernhard Eichhorn
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