Superfluous People (1926)

Original title

Überflüssige Menschen

Directed by

Aleksandr Razumny

Genre

drama film, silent film

Country

Soviet Union, Germany

Runtime

1h 47m

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A silent drama from 1926 about people considered unnecessary by society. It follows characters struggling in a system that discards them.

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What happens

Superfluous People (German:Überflüssige Menschen) is a 1926 German silent film directed by Aleksandr Razumny and starring Eugen Klöpfer, Camilla von Hollay and Heinrich George. It was made by Prometheus-Film which was affiliated to the German Communist Party and the Moscow-based Mezhrabpomfilm. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Andrej Andrejew and Stefan Lhotka. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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