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People on Sunday

Original title: Menschen am Sonntag
  • 1930
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 13m
IMDb RATING
7.3/10
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Christl Ehlers in People on Sunday (1930)
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Two men and two women enjoy a pleasant Sunday at the beach amid the unending toil of the working week.Two men and two women enjoy a pleasant Sunday at the beach amid the unending toil of the working week.Two men and two women enjoy a pleasant Sunday at the beach amid the unending toil of the working week.

  • Directors
    • Robert Siodmak
    • Edgar G. Ulmer
    • Rochus Gliese
  • Writers
    • Billy Wilder
    • Curt Siodmak
    • Robert Siodmak
  • Stars
    • Erwin Splettstößer
    • Brigitte Borchert
    • Wolfgang von Waltershausen
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.3/10
    3.4K
    YOUR RATING
    • Directors
      • Robert Siodmak
      • Edgar G. Ulmer
      • Rochus Gliese
    • Writers
      • Billy Wilder
      • Curt Siodmak
      • Robert Siodmak
    • Stars
      • Erwin Splettstößer
      • Brigitte Borchert
      • Wolfgang von Waltershausen
    • 25User reviews
    • 49Critic reviews
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    Brigitte Borchert in People on Sunday (1930)
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    Christl Ehlers in People on Sunday (1930)
    Brigitte Borchert and Christl Ehlers in People on Sunday (1930)
    Brigitte Borchert, Christl Ehlers, Erwin Splettstößer, and Wolfgang von Waltershausen in People on Sunday (1930)
    Annie Schreyer and Erwin Splettstößer in People on Sunday (1930)
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    Erwin Splettstößer
    Erwin Splettstößer
    • Self - Taxi Driver
    Brigitte Borchert
    Brigitte Borchert
    • Self - Record Seller
    Wolfgang von Waltershausen
    Wolfgang von Waltershausen
    • Self - Wine Seller
    Christl Ehlers
    Christl Ehlers
    • Self - Extra in Films
    Annie Schreyer
    Annie Schreyer
    • Self - Model
    Kurt Gerron
    Kurt Gerron
    • Self
    • (uncredited)
    Valeska Gert
    Valeska Gert
    • Self
    • (uncredited)
    Heinrich Gretler
    • Self
    • (uncredited)
    Moriz Seeler
    • Photo Subject at Beach
    • (uncredited)
    Ernö Verebes
    Ernö Verebes
    • Self
    • (uncredited)
    • Directors
      • Robert Siodmak
      • Edgar G. Ulmer
      • Rochus Gliese(uncredited)
    • Writers
      • Billy Wilder
      • Curt Siodmak
      • Robert Siodmak(uncredited)
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    • Trivia
      The film was a major hit when it was released in Germany in 1930. Five of the people who worked on the film went on to direct films in Hollywood: Curt Siodmak, his brother Robert Siodmak, Edgar G. Ulmer, Fred Zinnemann and Billy Wilder.
    • Goofs
      When the movie star picture cards are torn off the wall, the number of cards still on the wall constantly changes. Sometimes more cards are still on the wall than in the shot before etc.
    • Connections
      Featured in Histoire(s) du cinéma: Toutes les histoires (1989)

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    8/10
    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.
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    • Release date
      • February 4, 1930 (Germany)
    • Country of origin
      • Germany
    • Languages
      • None
      • German
    • Also known as
      • People on Sunday, a Film Without Actors
    • Filming locations
      • Strandbad Wannsee, Zehlendorf, Berlin, Germany
    • Production companies
      • Film Studio 1929
      • Filmstudio Berlin
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 13 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Silent
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.20 : 1

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