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
Grete Ly · Charles Willy Kayser · A.L. Porttier · Waldemar Pottier · Eugen Klöpfer · Ilka Grüning · Marie von Bülow · Bernhard Goetzke · Martin Berger · Alexander Ekert