People on Sunday (1930)

Essential Viewing

Germany

Feature Film

Original Title: Menschen am Sonntag

Directors: Robert Siodmak, Edgar G. Ulmer

Writers: Billy Wilder, Curt Siodmak

Cinematographer: Eugen Schüfftan

Composer: Elena Kats-Chernin (2000)

Cast: Erwin Splettstößer, Brigitte Borchert, Wolfgang von Waltershausen, Christl Ehlers, Annie Schreyer

Under the direction of Robert Siodmak and Edgar G. Ulmer, with a screenplay by Billy Wilder from an idea by Curt Siodmak, with assistance from Fred Zinnemann, this barely scripted little feature with documentary inserts has rather dazzling credentials, and whilst they may bring to mind cooks and broth, nothing could be further from the truth, with the final result being a delightfully light, sexy, and beautiful depiction of the joys of Sundays, summer, and youthful inconsequence. Iain.Stott