The Robe

1991 · 88 min · Fantasy, Comedy

Banned in the GDR – The rediscovered satire – Freely based on the fairy tale ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’.

Poor weavers Hans und Kumpan try to enter a town surrounded by a tall, impenetrable wall, where everyone is apparently very happy. When they finally make it inside, the tyrannical Emperor Max demands they make him new clothes that would "bring all creatures to their knees." Hans and Kumpan claim only intelligent people can see the robe, and in order to prove himself clever, the emperor haughtily displays himself before his subjects wearing his new invisible regalia.

Directors: Konrad Petzold, Egon Günther
Writers: Egon Günther, Hans Christian Andersen
Released: February 9, 1991
Language: German

Cast

Wolf Kaiser
Kaiser Max
Horst Drinda
Hans
Werner Lierck
Kumpan
Eva-Maria Hagen
Katrin
Günther Simon
Fleischer
Lore Frisch
Bekleidungsministerin
Kurt Rackelmann
Innenminister
Gerd E. Schäfer
Außenminister
Erik S. Klein
Küchenminister
Gerry Wolff
Justiz
Hannes Fischer
der Dicke
Harry Riebauer
der Dünne

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