DVD
People on Sunday = Menschen am Sonntag
Call Number
- DVD FOREIGN (CEN)
Edition
DVD special ed.
Languages
Silent; German intertitles with English subtitles.
Performers
Erwin Splettstösser, Brigitte Borchert, Wolfgang von Waltershausen, Christl Ehlers, Annie Schreyer, Kurt Gerron, Valeska Gert, Heinrich Gretler, Ernö Verebes.
Publication Information
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2011]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (73 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.+ 1 booklet (25 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Audience
Not rated.
Summary
An effervescent, sunlit silent film about a handful of city dwellers enjoying a weekend outing that offers a rare glimpse of Weimar-era Berlin. A unique hybrid of documentary and fictional storytelling, the film was both an experiment and a mainstream hit that would influence generations of film artists around the world.
Notes
Title from container.
From a reportage by Kurt Siodmak.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1930.
Special features: two scores, a silent-era-style one and a modern one ; "Weekend am Wansee," Gerald Koll's 2000 documentary about the film ; "Ins Blaue hinein," a 36 minute short from 1931 by Eugen Schüfftan.