The Folk Upstairs

Society/Everyday life, Germany 1926

People from the most diverse social groups live together in a Berlin apartment building. While the lowest floor is occupied by a jeweller and a lawyer, the tenants become poorer and more destitute as the floor rises. Above the jeweller and the lawyer live a widow and a civil servant, on the next floor there is a dance school and a marriage bureau, and under the roof live a balloon salesman and a piano teacher. The silent film Menschen Untereinander (premiere: 3 April 1926 in Berlin) depicts the social microcosm of a tenement building whose inhabitants represent a cross-section of poverty, corruption and compassion.
120 min
HD
Starting at 14
Audio language:
Silent with music
Subtitles:
EnglishFrench

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Composer:

Giuseppe Becce

Cast:

Alfred Abel (Helmuth Köhler)

Aud Egede-Nissen (Gertrud Köhler)

Eduard Rothauser (Rudloff)

Renate Brausewetter (Brigitte)

Berthold Reissig (Lippert)

Paul Bildt (Ritter)

Elsa Wagner (Mrs. Ritter)

Mathilde Sussin (Mrs. of Wolgast)

Andreas Bull (Dieter of Wolgast)

Original title:

Menschen untereinander

Original language:

German

Format:

4:3 HD, B/W

Age rating:

Starting at 14

Audio language:

Silent with music

Subtitles:

EnglishFrench