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Menschen am Sonntag : ein Film ohne Schauspieler / Filmstudio ; Manuskript, Billy Wilder nach einer Reportage von Kurt Siodmak ; Regie, Robert Siodmak, Edgar G. Ulmer.
LIBRA DVD/PAL 012 825 disc + booklet
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- History of the avant-garde
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Siodmak, Curt, 1902-2000--Film adaptations.
- Siodmak, Curt.
- Siodmak, Curt, 1902-2000.
- Man-woman relationships--Drama.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Berlin (Germany)--Drama.
- Berlin (Germany).
- Motion pictures, German.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Film adaptations.
- Feature films.
- Silent films.
- Romance films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (73 min.) : silent, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([10] pages : illustrations ; 18 cm).
- monochrome
- Other Title:
- Title on container: People on Sunday
- Place of Publication:
- [London] : British Film Institute, [2000]
- Language Note:
- Silent film with music soundtrack, German intertitles and English subtitles.
- System Details:
- DVD - PAL; Region 2.
- digital
- optical
- PAL
- video file
- DVD video
- region 2
- Summary:
- Follows the romantic misadventures of a taxi driver and his married salesman friend as they spend one Sunday trying to pick up a shopgirl and a model. Their flirtations take them from the bustling streets of Berlin to a beach on the Wannsee lake, where they spend the day with the women, then return to their lives in the city at the end of the day.
- Participant:
- Erwin Splettstösser, Brigitte Borchert, Wolfgang von Waltershausen, Christl Ehlers, Annie Schreyer.
- Credits:
- Cameramen, Eugene Schuftan and Fred Zinnemann ; music composed by Elena Kats-Chernin.
- Notes:
- Based on an original story by Curt Siodmak.
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1929.
- Aspect ratio 1.33.1
- Special features include biographical information on directors and screenwriters and the 1951 short film This year -- London / directed by John Krish.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Elsie de Renzo Orlando Fund.
- Contains:
- This year -- London
- OCLC:
- 61243093
- Publisher Number:
- BFIVD648 BFi
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