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Please note this screening of People on Sunday is with the film's soundtrack. This screening is free.

Five young Berliners escape from their rigid city lives and travel to the countryside armed with bathing suits, picnics and record players in search of frivolity. The city in this 'City Symphony' is characterised as bustling, serious and a confining counterpoint to the freedom found in the countryside. The astonishing first film by several artists who were soon to become Berlin exiles, including Robert Siodmak, Billy Wilder, Fred Zinnemann, Eugen Schüfftan, and Edgar Ulmer. A sardonic, witty view of how the working class spends its leisure time, swimming, snoozing, and flirting.