 |
|||
 |
Empty
|
 |
 |
 |
|||
|
|
|||||||||||||||||
|
|
People on Sunday
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 |
Our DVD Price: £15.99 RRP: 
Availability In Stock - should be despatched within 24 hours. This product will be dispatched from Guernsey. Delivery times
Earn 75 Bonus Points when you buy this product. More info |
VHS £15.99
Film Description
Marking the debuts of such talents as Billy Wilder, Fred Zinnemann, Edgar Ulmer, Robert and Curt Siodmak and cinematographer Eugene Schufftan, People on Sunday is a revelation. It's an inventive and naturalistic account of ordinary working types on their day off (filmed only on Sundays of course) and really is as an unheralded pinnacle of silent film in its mix of documentary and naturalism.
Film Information
| Director | Edgar G Ulmer / Curt Siodmak | ||||
| Genre | Silent Film
|
||||
| Country | Germany | Language | SILENT | Year | 1929 |
DVD Extras
This Year � London (UK, 1951), a 25-minute film which follows the adventures of a Leicester-based shoe factory staff on their annual holiday outing; Filmmakers� biographies; 12-page booklet with film notes.
Technical Details
| Certificate | E | Length | 73 mins | Label | BFI | ||
| Cat No | BFIVD648 | Format | DVD | Black & White | |||
| Region | 2 | Aspect | 1.33:1 | ||||
3 Stills
 |
 |
Share your thoughts and opinions - write a review
Review by John Davies on 20th March 2001
People on Sunday was made in the summer of 1929 by a group of enterprising and talented filmmakers at the start of their careers – Billy Wilder, Edgar Ulmer, Robert & Curt Siodmak, Fred Zinnemann and Fritz Lang’s inventive cinematographer Eugene Schüfftan. The result was a unique mix of documentary and fiction almost cavalier in the style and simplicity of its storytelling and full of the life of the streets in 1920s Berlin. It proudly proclaimed itself to be ‘a film without actors’ and the lives of the characters in the film were conflated with the real lives of the people who assumed those characters, even to the extent of them only being filmed on their day off, Sunday.
The storyline is a simple one of boy meets girl then prefers her friend, but this is beautifully weighted with a joyful look at people relaxing, sunbathing and picnicking on a Sunday by the Nikolassee. Society as a whole is the subject of the film, which still offers a genuinely fresh vision, and is enraptured by the beauty of the everyday.
View more reviews by John Davies
Review by Graeme Hobbs on 1st April 2005
People on Sunday was made in the summer of 1929 by a group of enterprising and talented filmmakers at the start of their careers – Billy Wilder, Edgar Ulmer, Robert & Curt Siodmak, Fred Zinnemann and Fritz Lang’s inventive cinematographer Eugene Schüfftan. The result was a unique mix of documentary and fiction almost cavalier in the style and simplicity of its storytelling and full of the life of the streets in 1920s Berlin. It proudly proclaimed itself to be ‘a film without actors’ and the lives of the characters in the film were conflated with the real lives of the people who assumed those characters, even to the extent of them only being filmed on their day off, Sunday.
The storyline is a simple one of boy meets girl then prefers her friend, but this is beautifully weighted with a joyful look at people relaxing, sunbathing and picnicking on a Sunday by the Nikolassee. Society as a whole is the subject of the film, which still offers a genuinely fresh vision, and is enraptured by the beauty of the everyday.
View more reviews by Graeme Hobbs
Article - "Beautiful Spring; 10 Silent Classics"
by John Davies
Monday 23rd September 2002
I hope with this selection both to challenge the prevailing notion of silent cinema as hopelessly primitive, and to encourage pleasurable discovery. Spurred by pioneers like the aptly named Lumiere brothers and Georges Melies, (whose fantasies seem sprinkled with mag... View article in full
Article - "Living Pictures - The Early Days of Film"
by Graeme Hobbs
Tuesday 10th October 2006
From cinema's very inception, its appeal has lain with the presentation of illusions and the recording of actuality. Here, Graeme Hobbs looks at how the intersection of these two elements provides us with some of the finest films of that era, and which continue to... View article in full
Hand-picked recommendations of related films
|
Dir: Dziga Vertov One of the most extraordinary films in the history of cinema and as important and watchable now as when it was m... More > |
|
Dir: Robert Flaherty One of the most influential documentaries ever made, and hailed as a masterpiece on its release in 1922, this po... More > |
|
Dir: Godfrey Reggio Visually stunning examinations of the impact of technological progress on the earth and its peoples. Created alo... More > |
Recommendations from fellow customers
by Man Ray
by E A Dupont
by Dziga Vertov
| Special Offers | ||||||||||||||||
|
More Great Offers
|
| BestSellers | ||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
| Recommended by MovieMail | ||||||||||
|
A curated collection of the best DVDs
Latest Additions
|
||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||
| Just Released |
|
Magnificent Obsession Wagonmaster Eyes Without a Face Pink String and Sealing Wax San Demetrio London |
| Coming Soon |
|
Rembrandt Alice in the Cities Dexter (Series 1) Tokyo Joe Radio On |
|
||
| Home | Film Catalogue | New Releases | Special Offers | Top 30 | ||
|
||
| Film Collections | Film Media | News | Your Account | Help | Become a MovieMail affiliate | ||
|
||
For questions or assistance, call us on (+44) 0844 776 0900 or email on enquiries@moviemail-online.co.uk © 2004-2007 MovieMail, Ltd., All Rights Reserved. Find out more about MovieMail |
||
|
Man Ray Films
Piccadilly
Seven Samurai
Man With a Movie Camera
Night And Fog
