The Robe

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

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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.

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Creators

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Konrad Petzold

director

Egon Günther

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Egon Günther

writer

Hans Christian Andersen

writer

Cast

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Wolf Kaiser actor Horst Drinda actor

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Werner Lierck actor Eva-Maria Hagen actor Günther Simon actor

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Lore Frisch actor

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Kurt Rackelmann actor

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Gerd E. Schäfer actor

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Erik S. Klein actor

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Gerry Wolff actor

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Hannes Fischer actor

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Harry Riebauer actor

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Ernst-Georg Schwill actor

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Gerhard Rachold actor

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Hans Klering actor

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Harry Gillmann actor

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Nico Turoff actor

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Axel Triebel actor

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Fritz Mohr actor

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Horst Kube actor