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.

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