Clothes Make the Man (1940 film)

Clothes Make the Man
Clothes Make the Man
	German film poster
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
Production; company	Terra Film
Distributed by	Terra Film
Release date	16 September 1940;
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

The film was released in the USA only in 1958, in German but with no subtitles.

Thomas Kramer of the Reclams Lexikon of the German Films

^ 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.

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