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