Movie
Menschen
1920 · 60 min
A grim, solemn silent-era descent into postwar despair, watching the vulnerable slowly crushed by an indifferent world.
- Directed by
- Martin Berger
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Grete Ly, Eugen Klöpfer, Ilka Grüning
- Overview
- Martin Berger’s 'Menschen' serves as a harrowing socio-cinematic autopsy of the human spirit, adrift in the wreckage of a post-war landscape. Far from the escapist fantasies that often dominated early Weimar screens, this 1921 opus delves into the penumbral existence of the disenfranchised. The narrative follows a fatalistic trajectory, where the characters—portrayed with a raw, almost primitive intensity—grapple with the crushing weight of systemic indifference and personal moral decay.
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- Directed by
- Martin Berger
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Grete Ly, Eugen Klöpfer, Ilka Grüning
