1930 German silent drama film following the lives of a group of residents of Berlin on a summer's day during the interwar period.People on Sunday is a 1930 German silent drama film directed by Robert Siodmak and Edgar G. Ulmer from a screenplay by Billy Wilder.
Subtitled "a film without actors" it was filmed over a succession of Sundays in the summer of 1929. The actors were amateurs whose day jobs were those that they portrayed in the film—the opening titles inform the audience that these actors have all returned to their normal jobs by the time of the film's release in February 1930.
They were part of a collective of young Berliners who wrote and produced the film themselves on a shoestring budget. The lightly scripted, loosely observational work became a surprise hit.
Hailed as a work of genius, it is a pivotal film not only in the development of German cinema but also of Hollywood.
