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People on Sunday is a Allemand film of genre Drama directed by Robert Siodmak with Kurt Gerron

People on Sunday (1930)

People on Sunday
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Length 58minutes
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OriginGerman
Genres Drama,    Comedy,    Documentary
Rating72% 3.646213.646213.646213.646213.64621

People on Sunday (German: Menschen am Sonntag) is a 1930 German silent drama film directed by Curt and Robert Siodmak from a screenplay by Billy Wilder. The film follows the lives of a group of residents of Berlin on a summer's day during the interwar period. Hailed as a work of genius, it is a pivotal film not only in the development of German cinema but also of Hollywood. In addition to the Siodmak brothers and Wilder, the film features the talents of Edgar G. Ulmer (producer), Fred Zinnemann (cinematography) and Eugen Schüfftan, who had developed the Schüfftan process for Metropolis three years earlier.

The film is subtitled "a film without actors" and was filmed over a succession of Sundays in the summer of 1929. The actors were amateurs whose day jobs were those that they portrayed in the film—the opening titles inform the audience that these actors have all returned to their normal jobs by the time of the film's release in February 1930. They were part of a collective of young Berliners who wrote and produced the film themselves, on a shoestring budget. This lightly scripted, loosely observational work of New Objectivity became a surprise hit.

People on Sunday is notable not only for its portrayal of daily life in Berlin shortly before Adolf Hitler became Chancellor, but also as an early work by the future Hollywood writer/director Billy Wilder before he moved to the United States to escape from Hitler's Germany. Wilder's mother, grandmother, and stepfather all died at the Auschwitz extermination camp. The film is also the directorial debut of the Siodmak Brothers. The film was produced by Seymour Nebenzal, cousin to the Siodmaks, whose father Heinrich put up the funds to make the movie. This began a thirty-year collaborative friendship between Nebenzal and Wilder.

Synopsis

The film opens at Bahnhof Zoo train station one Saturday morning. Its opening scenes show the bustling traffic of central Berlin.

Actors

Kurt Gerron

(Kurt)Heinrich Gretler

(Heinrich)Ernő Verebes

(Ernö)
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