Wibbel the Tailor

Comedy

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Viktor de Kowa

Status Released

Release Date 1939-08-17

Storyline

During the Napoleonic occupation of the German states in 1812, a tailor by the name of Anton Wibbel is sentenced to sit in jail for insulting the Emperor. The tailor manages to get out of this by paying off a friend to go to prison in his place. But then, the "phony" prisoner suddenly dies in his cell and everyone now thinks Wibbel is dead.