Clothes Make the Man (1940)
With Heinz Rühmann, Hertha Feiler, Hans Sternberg, Fritz Odemar, Hilde Sessak, Olga Limburg, Rudolf Schündler, Erich Ponto
Directed by Helmut Käutner, Paul Verhoeven
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. 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.
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