Cinema Ritrovato 2017 – review – PEOPLE ON SUNDAY (“Menschen am Sonntag,” Robert Siodmak and Edgar G. Ulmer, 1930, Germany)
During the years of the Weimar Republic, German film production flourished. In 1929, a collective of filmmakers got together to make a film named People of Sunday, which has now acquired a legendary status among connoisseurs. Historically, the film remains somewhat of an anomaly; it was made as a reaction against the celebrated Expressionist and…