“Du, Wolf, nächsten Sonntag — ?” Menschen am Sonntag [People on Sunday, a Film Without Actors] (Robert Siodmak, Edgar G. Ulmer, Rochus Gliese, Curt Siodmak + Fred Zinnemann, 1929)
Jul
31
Brigitte Borchert savours her Sunday. The workweek is still lightyears away (via). DP: Eugen Schüfftan.
Someone goes to work*
– title card
Berliners rest on Sunday, we still do. People lounge in the many parks, and on the shores of the city's many lakes. And then, it's Monday.
Released in 1929, according to Atlas Film, who restored this important Weimar classic long before Criterion put their grubby hands on it.
* the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for July is, for unknown reasons, mostly not date-related and follows some sort of vacation narrative.