People on Sunday (1930) review

Filmmakers Siodmak and Ulmer - working off a "screenplay" co-written by Billy Wilder - take several non-actors and show them going to a lake, playing field hockey, hanging around the park, getting their pictures taken, catching feelings for one another and so on.  It's plotless - and, as much as I hate to say it, rather pointless - but it is nice as a time capsule to show what was happening in Deutschland after World War I and before World War II, which is when the schnitzel hit the proverbial fan ... and some of those beaming faces shown here would turn into radicalized mass murderers.  It's also kind of depressing - you spend your whole week just waiting for some brief moments of freedom on the weekend ... but you know what they say about how work will set you free and all that.