IMDb plot summary: Two men and two women enjoy a pleasant Sunday at the beach amid the unending toil of the working week.
Directed by Robert Siodmak and Edgar G. Ulmer. Starring Erwin Splettstößer, Brigitte Borchert, and Wolfgang von Waltershausen.
People on Sunday is a German film that famously cast non-actors to portray a day in the life of an average Berlin resident. It's also the earliest movie I've seen credited to Billy Wilder as a writer, several years before he went on to his well-known work in the United States. This film, like many in this 1930 project, is more historically interesting than narratively interesting, at least for me. Realism wasn't super in vogue at this point in film history, so seeing it sought for in this film, even to the post of not wanting trained actors in the role, is an interesting change from many of the other films I've been seeing. The movie also does keep the stakes realistically low -- characters go on picnics, flirt with each other, and have small arguments, but not with anything resembling an arc. It's just a little slice-of-life film. While I don't have any interest in returning to it any time soon, I'm glad I've seen it and know a little bit more about this movie now.
How it entered my Flickchart:
People on Sunday < Frank
People on Sunday > My Friend Irma
People on Sunday < Dirty Dancing
People on Sunday < The White Ribbon
People on Sunday > Red River
People on Sunday > The Devil is a Woman
People on Sunday > Blue Valentine
People on Sunday > The Milagro Beanfield War
People on Sunday > Sweet and Lowdown
People on Sunday < State Fair (1945)
People on Sunday < Saludos Amigos
People on Sunday < Kiki's Delivery Service
Final spot: #2462 out of 3572, or 31%.
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