Clothes Make the Man (1921 film)

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Clothes Make the Man
German Kleider machen Leute
Directed by Hans Steinhoff
Written byHans Steinhoff
Starring Hermann Thimig
Dora Kaiser
Hugo Thimig
CinematographyAnton Pucher
Production
company
Volo-Film
Release date
  • 29 December 1921 (1921-12-29)
CountriesAustria
Germany
LanguagesSilent
German intertitles

Clothes Make the Man (German: Kleider machen Leute) is a 1921 Austrian-German silent film based on the 1874 novella by Gottfried Keller, directed by Hans Steinhoff and starring Hermann Thimig, Dora Kaiser and Hugo Thimig. [1]

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Writing for the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung E. K. commented: "Hans Steinhoff leads an excellent stylistically true and artistically extremely commendable artistic direction, which really conjures back a 'happier' Biedermeier time and knows how to find amusing and trusting motifs. It's an absolutely German game with all the familiar beauty we love about Gottfried Keller. In the sometimes simple, undemanding way, Steinhoff's direction is reminiscent of Lang's Tired Death. A great success of Ufa". [2]

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References

  1. Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim, eds. (2009). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York: Berghahn Books. p. 474. ISBN   1571816550. JSTOR   j.ctt1x76dm6.
  2. Kleider machen Leute bundesarchiv.de.