Clothes Make the Man (1940 film)

Clothes Make the Man
Directed by	Helmut Käutner
Produced by	Artur Kiekebusch-Brenken
Written by	Gottfried Keller (novel) Helmut Käutner
Starring	Heinz Rühmann Hertha Feiler Hilde Sessak
Music by	Bernhard Eichhorn
Cinematography	Ewald Daub
Edited by	Helmuth Schönnenbeck
Production company	Terra Film
Distributed by	Terra Film
Release dates	16 September 1940
Running time	91 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German

Clothes Make the Man (German:Kleider machen Leute) is a 1940 German comedy film directed by Helmut Käutner and starring Heinz Rühmann, Hertha Feiler and Hilde Sessak.^[1] It was shot at the Barrandov Studios in German-occupied Prague as well as at the Babelsberg Studio near Berlin.

Cast

• Heinz Rühmann as Schneidergeselle Wenzel
• Hertha Feiler as Nettchen
• Hilde Sessak as Fräulein von Serafin
• Hans Sternberg as Amtsrat und Tuchherr Küchlin
• Fritz Odemar as Graf Stroganoff
• Rudolf Schündler as Konfektionshändler Melcher-Böhni in Goldach
• Hans Stiebner as Gastwirt der 'Waage' in Goldach
• Erwin Hoffmann
• Erich Ponto
• Leopold von Ledebur
• Franz Weber
• Helmut Weiss as Herr Häberlin jun.
• Aribert Wäscher as Spezereiwarenhändler Nievergelt
• Olga Limburg as Begleiterin des Fräulein von Serafin
• Joe Furtner
• Klaus Pohl
• Franz Stein

References

1. Hull p.235

Bibliography

• Hull, David Stewart. Film in the Third Reich: A Study of the German Cinema, 1933-1945. University of California Press, 1969.

External links

• Clothes Make the Man at the Internet Movie Database