Cover image for People on Sunday : a film without actors = Menschen am Sonntag : ein Film ohne Schauspieler
People on Sunday : a film without actors = Menschen am Sonntag : ein Film ohne Schauspieler
Title:
People on Sunday : a film without actors = Menschen am Sonntag : ein Film ohne Schauspieler
ISBN:
9781604654370

9786314211844
Publication Information:
New York, N.Y. : The Criterion Collection, ©2011
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (73 min.) : si., black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (25 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
General Note:
Originally produced as a German motion picture in 1930.

Special features: Weekend am Wannsee = Weekend in Wannsee, a 31 min. documentary on Menschen am Sonntag, directed by Gerald Koll; Ins Blaue hinein = Into the blue, a 36 min. short film by cinematographer Eugen Schüfftan.
Summary:
Non-actors play versions of themselves in loosely outlined scenarios. The sense of what an ordinary day might have been like in Weimar-era Germany is enchantingly captured in this bit of cinematic amber.
System Details:
DVD; REGION 1, FULL SCREEN (1.33:1) ASPECT RATIO, DOLBY DIGITAL 2.0 STEREO SOUND, DUAL LAYER, NTSC.
Language Note:
SILENT FILM WITH GERMAN INTERTITLES; WITH OPTIONAL SUBTITLES IN ENGLISH, AND OPTIONAL MUSICAL SOUNDTRACKS BY ELENA KATS-CHERNIN OR THE MONT ALTO ORCHESTRA.
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