People on Sunday Blu-ray

Release Year: 1930

Runtime: 74 min

Directors: Robert Siodmak, Edgar G. Ulmer

Cast: Erwin Splettstößer, Brigitte Borchert, Wolfgang von Waltershausen, Christl Ehlers, Annie Schreyer

Studios: Filmstudio 1929, Filmstudio Berlin

A semi-documentary experimental 1930 German silent film created by amateurs with a small budget. With authentic scenes of the metropolis city of Berlin, it's the first film from the later famous screenwriters/directors Billy Wilder and Fred Zinnemann.

Special Features:

New high-definition digital restoration

Created in collaboration with the EYE Film Institute Netherlands.

Two scores

A silent-era-style one by the Mont Alto Orchestra and a modern one by Elena Kats-Chernin, performed by the Czech Film Orchestra—both presented as uncompressed stereo soundtracks.

Weekend am Wannsee

Gerald Koll's 2000 documentary about the film, featuring interviews with star Brigitte Borchert and writer Curt Siodmak.

Ins Blaue hinein

A thirty-six-minute short from 1931 by People on Sunday cinematographer Eugen Schüfftan.

New and improved English subtitle translation

PLUS: A booklet

Featuring an essay by film scholar Noah Isenberg and reprints by scriptwriter Billy Wilder and director Robert Siodmak.

Technical Specifications:

• High-definition digital restoration
• 73 minutes
• Black & White
• Silent
• German intertitles with English subtitles
• 1.33:1 aspect ratio