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Das gemeinsame Leben eines Mannes und einer Frau in einer großen, anonymen Metropole, ihre Hoffnungen, Probleme und Tiefen.Das gemeinsame Leben eines Mannes und einer Frau in einer großen, anonymen Metropole, ihre Hoffnungen, Probleme und Tiefen.Das gemeinsame Leben eines Mannes und einer Frau in einer großen, anonymen Metropole, ihre Hoffnungen, Probleme und Tiefen.
- Für 2 Oscars nominiert
- 1 Gewinn & 2 Nominierungen insgesamt
John D. Bloss
- Boy on Fence
- (Nicht genannt)
Roy Bloss
- Boy on Fence
- (Nicht genannt)
Sidney Bracey
- John's Supervisor
- (Nicht genannt)
Johnny Downs
- John - Age 12
- (Nicht genannt)
Sally Eilers
- Party Girl at Bert's Place
- (Nicht genannt)
Joseph W. Girard
- Member of Board of Directors
- (Nicht genannt)
Pat Harmon
- Truck Driver
- (Nicht genannt)
Chris-Pin Martin
- Worker in Hallway
- (Nicht genannt)
Claude Payton
- Undetermined Secondary Role
- (Nicht genannt)
Handlung
WUSSTEST DU SCHON:
- WissenswertesSeveral years after the film was made, alcoholism had taken its toll on lead actor James Murray, who was reduced to panhandling in the street. Ironically, one of the passers-by he solicited for money turned out to be King Vidor, who offered him a part in the film's semi-sequel, Unser tägliches Brot (1934). Murray declined the offer, thinking it was only made out of pity. He died in 1936 at the age of 35 in a drowning incident. Vidor was sufficiently compelled to write his life story as an unrealized screenplay, which he called "The Actor".
- PatzerAfter John sprays himself with milk when opening the bottle, his clothes go from covered with milk to clean from one shot to the next.
- Zitate
Title Card: The crowd laughs with you always... but it will cry with you for only a day.
- Alternative VersionenThere is an Italian edition of this film on DVD, distributed by DNA srl, "LA FOLLA (1928) + LA GRANDE PARATA (1925)" (2 Films on a single DVD), re-edited with the contribution of film historian Riccardo Cusin. This version is also available for streaming on some platforms.
- VerbindungenEdited into Herz am Scheideweg (1931)
Ausgewählte Rezension
When my ship comes in.
Restored with a very nice score,"the crowd" hasn't aged a bit.The topic is as relevant today as it was in 1928.Do have a look at the first pictures of "the apartment" (1960) or the last ones of "working girl"(1988)and you'll know what I mean. John Sims tries to beat the crowd,this crowd that follows him everywhere,at work,in the streets,at the fair or on the beach.He doesn't even realize his condition :you should see him laughing at the people on the street,behaving like sheep.It's always someone else,his wife says,take a look at yourself.
The secondary characters are wonderfully depicted:the well-padded buddy,the mother and brothers-in-law always contemptuous,always putting John down.Lots of sequences are memorable,now comic,now tragic:the tiny flat where even the bed must be folded,the huge office where employees are doing the same job at the same time,where everybody acts alike when they leave their job,like some kind of ballet.
John Sims is the embodiment of the American dream,but it has an universal appeal.When he was born,his father promised he would have good prospects,he would become someone big.King Vidor does not show the relationship father/son cause the father disappears when John is still a boy,but we can easily imagine it.So Sims thought NY was depending on him,and he discovers that he will be a wash-out all his life.If it weren't for his little boy who still believes in him(Vittorio de Sica will remember it for his "bicycle thief",he would throw himself under a train.
The cinematography is prodigious;two examples : The father is dead, the boy is climbing a stair : stunning high angle shot,enhancing his awful pain. On the contrary,the skyscrapers are filmed from below,showing how lost a human being can feel in this steel and glass world .
A detail :the hysterical/historical joke at the fair will be used again by the Beatles themselves in their "magical mystery tour" home-made movie.
1928:the silent era was coming to an end but we had not heard the last of it.
The secondary characters are wonderfully depicted:the well-padded buddy,the mother and brothers-in-law always contemptuous,always putting John down.Lots of sequences are memorable,now comic,now tragic:the tiny flat where even the bed must be folded,the huge office where employees are doing the same job at the same time,where everybody acts alike when they leave their job,like some kind of ballet.
John Sims is the embodiment of the American dream,but it has an universal appeal.When he was born,his father promised he would have good prospects,he would become someone big.King Vidor does not show the relationship father/son cause the father disappears when John is still a boy,but we can easily imagine it.So Sims thought NY was depending on him,and he discovers that he will be a wash-out all his life.If it weren't for his little boy who still believes in him(Vittorio de Sica will remember it for his "bicycle thief",he would throw himself under a train.
The cinematography is prodigious;two examples : The father is dead, the boy is climbing a stair : stunning high angle shot,enhancing his awful pain. On the contrary,the skyscrapers are filmed from below,showing how lost a human being can feel in this steel and glass world .
A detail :the hysterical/historical joke at the fair will be used again by the Beatles themselves in their "magical mystery tour" home-made movie.
1928:the silent era was coming to an end but we had not heard the last of it.
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- 29. Dez. 2001
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- Erscheinungsdatum
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- Auch bekannt als
- Ein Mensch in der Masse
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- Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA(nighttime establishing exterior shots)
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By what name was Ein Mensch der Masse (1928) officially released in India in English?
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