Cinema
Les Hommes, le dimanche [Menschen am Sonntag]
by Robert Siodmak and Edgar G. Ulmer
Sunday 14 February 2010 • 5:30 PM
Jeu de Paume – Paris
Les Hommes, le dimanche [Menschen am Sonntag]
by Robert Siodmak and Edgar G. Ulmer,
Germany, 1930, silent, 74’.
A mixture of narrative and reportage, documentary and avant-garde, this silent film combines the
heritages of Soviet and French cinema with the photographic lessons of German New Objectivity.
Retrospectively, it can be seen as heralding Italian Neorealism and the French Nouvelle Vague. It is a
small masterpiece, simple yet subtle, about the life of the German capital before the advent of Nazism.
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