Kleider machen Leute (1921)
October 1, 1921Release Date
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
Hans Moser
Notar
Hugo Thimig
Wirt zur goldenen Waage
Hugo Thimig
Wirt zur goldenen Waage
Thea Oesey
Erika
Hans Thimig
Narr
Hans Steinhoff
Director
Details.
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.