Film
The Robe
XG- Director
- Konrad Petzold
- Year
- 1991
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.
Top 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
Ernst-Georg Schwill
Zwiebel
Gerhard Rachold
Latte
Hans Klering
Holzauge
Harry Gillmann
Schnapsnase
Nico Turoff
Wachsoldat
Axel Triebel
Wachsoldat Schmalzrübe
Directed by
Konrad Petzold, Egon Günther
Written by
Egon Günther, Hans Christian Andersen
