Menschen

(1920)

★ 9 IMDb · 1 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1920

Runtime: 60 мин

Country: Germany

Director: Martin Berger

Cast: Grete Ly, Eugen Klöpfer, Ilka Grüning, Alexander Ekert, Bernhard Goetzke, Charles Willy Kayser, A.L. Porttier, Waldemar Pottier, Marie von Bülow

Plot

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.