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Kleider machen Leute (1921)

Name: Kleider machen Leute
Genre: Drama
Released: 1921-10-01

Plot.

Early film adaptation of Gottfried Keller's well-known novella as a silent film. The plot revolves around a journeyman tailor who is thrown out by his master and, without his intervention, is forced into a lying role in which he takes on the role of a wealthy person.

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Cast & Crew.

Hermann Thimig

Jaro Sprapinsky

Dora Kaiser

Nettchen

Hugo Thimig

der Wirt zur goldenen Waage

Hugo Thimig

Wirt zur goldenen Waage

Hans Moser

Notar

Wilhelm Schmidt

Melchior Böhnli

Hans Thimig

Narr

Thea Oesey

Erika

Franz Kammauf

Amtmann

Cornelius Kirschner

Pfarrer

Eugen Guenther

Apotheker

Fritz Strassny

Professor

Victor Kutschera

Bettler

Hans Steinhoff

Director / Writer

Gottfried Keller

Story

Anton Pucher

Cinematographer

Hans Neumann

ProductionDesigner

Details.

Release Date
October 1, 1921

Status
Released

Genres
Drama

Last updated: 2023-12-05

Wiki.

Clothes Make the Man (German: Kleider machen Leute) is a 1921 Austrian-German silent film based on the 1874 novella by Gottfried Keller, directed by Hans Steinhoff and starring Hermann Thimig, Dora Kaiser and Hugo Thimig.