Menschen

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.

Cast

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Grete Ly

Eugen Klöpfer

Ilka Grüning

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Alexander Ekert

Bernhard Goetzke

Charles Willy Kayser

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A.L. Porttier

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Waldemar Pottier

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Marie von Bülow