Menschen am Sonntag (1930)

Note des utilisateurs:

8.1/10   

Directors:

Curt Siodmak
Robert Siodmak

Writers:

Curt Siodmak (writer)
Robert Siodmak (source material)

Release Date:

4 février 1930 (Germany)

Genre:

Documentary | Drame | Romance

Plot:

Edwin, a taxi driver, lives with Annie, a neurasthenic model. They plan to spend Sunday at the Nikolassee beach with Wolfgang...

Plot Keywords:

Semi Documentary

Avis des utilisateurs:

filled with fantastic shots

Ensemble

Erwin Splettstößer	...	Himself (taxi driver)
Brigitte Borchert	...	Herself (record seller)
Wolfgang von Waltershausen	...	Himself (wine seller)
Christl Ehlers	...	Herself (an extra in films)
Annie Schreyer	...	Herself (model)
reste de la distribution par ordre alphabétique:
Kurt Gerron	...	Himself
Valeska Gert	...	Herself
Heinrich Gretler	...	Himself
Ernö Verebes	...	Himself

Autre(s) titre(s):

People on Sunday
Les hommes le dimanche (France) [fr]

Durée:

74 min

Pays:

Germany

Couleur:

Noir et Blanc

Aspect Ratio:

1.20 : 1

Son:

Silent

Emplacements De Pelliculage:

Berlin, Germany

Company:

Filmstudio Berlin

Anecdotes:

The film was a major hit when it was released in Germany in 1930. Five of the people who worked on the film who went on to direct films in Hollywood: Curt Siodmak, his brother Robert Siodmak, Edgar G. Ulmer, Fred Zinnemann and Billy Wilder.

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Fejezetek a film történetéböl: A német film 1933-ig (#1.5)" (1989)

filled with fantastic shots

Marvellous late German silent that anticipates the Italian neo-realists, although I note some claim that this is not realistic at all and may even be showing struggling Berlin through rose tinted glasses. I'm not sure; those fantastic city sequences seem real enough and perhaps the regularly intoned opinion that Hitler was lurking in the shadows of a dispirited people, is itself a little fanciful. In any event this is a great little film filled with fantastic shots, moving street shots of and from moving trams, poetic close-ups of the young folk and a great sense of landscape at the lakeside. As usual with me and silent movies, I seem to get captions I don't need because the action is so obvious and whole sequences of back and forth dialogue left untitled. But just to watch the imagery is good enough and the little trysts, arguments, upsets and loving looks need no titles at all.