Titel Kino 2/2001(2 Alternativ) - German Films
Titel Kino 2/2001(2 Alternativ) - German Films
Titel Kino 2/2001(2 Alternativ) - German Films
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THE 100 MOST SIGNIFICANT GERMAN FILMS – 5*<br />
Menschen am Sonntag<br />
PEOPLE ON SUNDAY<br />
42<br />
A completely normal summer day in Berlin in 1929: life pulsates, the city vibrates full of energy,<br />
there is action all around. As though it were coincidence, the viewer gains insight into the lives<br />
of different residents of the metropole, and follows them through their everyday activities, their<br />
work, their free time.<br />
A young man waiting at a streetcorner for his dark-haired girlfriend. A taxi driver, Erwin, and his<br />
wife and their triste domestic existence. On Sunday, Berlin is as empty as a ghost town. It seems<br />
as though everyone flees to the countryside, the train stations are packed. Erwin meets up with<br />
the young man and his female companions, who are on their way to a nearby lake. The two<br />
men know each other and decide to make the excursion all together. The young man’s intense<br />
flirting with his girlfriend’s friend arouses jealously in his girlfriend, especially when he arranges a<br />
date with her for the following Sunday. Erwin reminds him that they already have plans to play<br />
football next Sunday. When Erwin returns home, he finds his wife just as he left her, asleep.<br />
Genre Drama Category Feature Film Cinema<br />
Year of Production 1929/30 Director Robert<br />
Siodmak Screenplay Billy Wilder Director of<br />
Photography Eugen Schüfftan Editor Robert<br />
Siodmak Music by Otto Stenzel Producer Moritz<br />
Seeler Production Company <strong>Films</strong>tudio 129, Berlin<br />
Principal Cast Erwin Splettstößer, Brigitte Borchert,<br />
Wolfgang von Waltershausen, Christl Ehlers, Anni<br />
Schreyer, Kurt Gerron, Valeska Gert, Ernst Verebes,<br />
Heinrich Gretler Length 74 min, 2014 m<br />
Format 35 mm, s/w, 1:1.37 Original Version<br />
<strong>German</strong> Subtitled Versions English, French<br />
<strong>German</strong> Distributor Stiftung Deutsche<br />
Kinemathek, Berlin<br />
World Sales:<br />
Atlantic-Film S.A. · Martin Hellstern<br />
Münchhaldenstr. 10 · CH-8034 Zurich<br />
phone +41-1-4 22 38 32 · fax +41-1-4 22 37 93<br />
www.praesens.com · email: info@praesens.com<br />
Scene from ”Menschen am Sonntag“ (photo © Filmmuseum Berlin/Deutsche Kinemathek)<br />
Robert Siodmak was born in 1900 in Memphis<br />
and died in 1973 in Locarno. He studied in Marburg<br />
and worked as an actor for the Ufa. In 1940, he<br />
went to the United States and made a name for<br />
himself with his psychologically accentuated crime<br />
story films. He was a representative of the humanistic-realism<br />
of <strong>German</strong> films prior to 1933 and one<br />
of the most important American directors of the<br />
“Black Series”. His films include: Abschied (1930),<br />
Voruntersuchung (1931) which was blacklisted<br />
in 1933, Brennendes Geheimnis (1933), The<br />
Suspect (Unter Verdacht, 1944), The Spiral<br />
Staircase (Die Wendeltreppe, 1945),<br />
Nachts, wenn der Teufel kam (1957) for<br />
which he won a prize for Best Director at Karlovy<br />
Vary, and many, many more.<br />
(* no.4 Nosferatu was already presented within the framework of<br />
the former series ”<strong>German</strong> Classic Movies“ in KINO 4/1999)