People on Sunday

Menschen am Sontag (also known in English as People on Sunday) is a 1929 German silent movie, directed by Robert Siodmak from a screenplay by Billy Wilder. It follows the lives of a group of residents of Berlin on a summer's day during the interwar period. The central character is Erwin, a taxi-driver, and the passengers he picks up - a young man and two girls - as they head out from a deserted Berlin to picnic in the countryside.

Menschen am Sontag is notable not only for its portrayal of daily life in Berlin shortly before Adolf Hitler became Chancellor, but also as an early work by the future Hollywood writer/director Billy Wilder before he moved to the United States to escape from Hitler's Germany. Wilder's mother, grandmother, and stepfather all died at the Auschwitz extermination camp.

External links

• http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020163/ Menschen am Sonntag at the Internet Movie Database
• http://www.german-films.de/app/filmarchive/film_view.php?film_id=570 Summary of the movie at German Films Archive