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PEOPLE ON SUNDAY
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14 | 7:30 P.M.
Bing Theater, Hollywood, CAAn early independent film blending documentary and loosely scripted fiction, People on Sunday can be considered a prototype for both Italian Neorealism and the French New Wave. A contemporary boy-meets-girl romance in Weimar-era Berlin, the film boasts an improbable crew of future Hollywood luminaries: co-directing with Edgar G. Ulmer is Robert Siodmak; Curt Siodmak and Billy Wilder are both credited with screenwriting; and Eugen Schüfftan heads a camera crew that includes Fred Zinnemann. This trailblazing “film without actors” is also a touching memento of Germany between the wars.
1930, 74 minutes, black and white, DCP | Directed by Robert Siodmak and Edgar G. Ulmer; written by Billy Wilder, from reportage by Curt Siodmak; with Erwin Splettstösser, Brigitte Borchert, Wolfgang von Waltershausen, Christl Ehlers, Annie Schreyer, Kurt Gerron.
Tickets are now on sale for just $5 for this very special screening that will be part of a double feature with another Ulmer film, The Light Ahead (1939).