Menschen
movie
View on VideBits →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.
Cast & crew
Alexander Ekert · A.L. Porttier · Bernhard Goetzke · Charles Willy Kayser · Eugen Klöpfer · Grete Ly · Ilka Grüning · Marie von Bülow · Waldemar Pottier · Martin Berger