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.
Martin Berger
Director, Writer
Grete Ly

Eugen Klöpfer

Ilka Grüning
Alexander Ekert

Bernhard Goetzke

Charles Willy Kayser
A.L. Porttier
Waldemar Pottier
Marie von Bülow
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