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

The Robe

8.0 (2 votes)• 1991• 88m•Released

Fantasy Comedy

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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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Languages: German

Director: Konrad Petzold, Egon Günther

Starring Cast: Wolf Kaiser, Horst Drinda, Werner Lierck, Eva-Maria Hagen, Günther Simon, Lore Frisch

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