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People on Sunday

People on Sunday

Robert Siodmak, 1930

Spine #569

Picked by 2 guests

Drama

Criterion Letterboxd TMDB

Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer, Robert Siodmak

Written by Billy Wilder

Cinematography Eugen Schüfftan

Cast Erwin Splettstößer, Brigitte Borchert, Wolfgang von Waltershausen, Christl Ehlers, Annie Schreyer, Kurt Gerron, Valeska Gert, Heinrich Gretler

Picked by

Christian Petzold

“People on Sunday. I was in Vienna in a film museum, we saw all Edgar Ulmer movies and People on Sunday. I was astonished: Billy Wilder, Fred Zinnemann, Robert Siodmak, they have to make a movie at the Weekend because they work for magazines or for scripts. This movie invents a new cinema, a cinema of bodies who can dance, bodies from the working class, bodies without makeup, without costumes. It's a fantastic free atmosphere, a fresh air is inside of this movie.”

Karina Longworth

“I'm gonna get this for my husband because I'm not sure if he's ever seen it. I saw it at Telluride a few years ago with a live score performed, and it was super great.”