People on Sunday

People on Sunday

193074 min7.2 / 10

A lively, semi-documentary snapshot of Berlin leisure culture in the Weimar era, capturing the casual flirtations and romantic entanglements of ordinary people on a summer day off.

A semi-documentary experimental 1930 German silent film created by amateurs with a small budget. With authentic scenes of the metropolis city of Berlin, it's the first film from the later famous screenwriters/directors Billy Wilder and Fred Zinnemann.

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