This documentary shows how the Berliner workers lived in 1930. The director Slatan Dudow shows through images: a) the workers leaving the factory; b) the raise of the rents; c) the "unpleasant" guest, meaning the justice officer that brings the eviction notice; d) the fight of classes of the houses of capitalists and working classes; e) the parks of the working class; f) the houses of the working class, origin of the tuberculosis and the victims; g) the playground of the working class; h) the swimming pool for the working class, ironically called the "Baltic Sea" of the working class; i) the effects of humidity of basement where a family lives, with one member deaf; j) one working class family having dinner while the capitalist baths his dog; k) the eviction notice received from an unemployed family and their eviction.
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Slatan Dudow Director
First release December 31, 1930 · Produced in Germany · Original title Zeitprobleme: Wie der Arbeiter wohnt
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Germany
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Original title
Zeitprobleme: Wie der Arbeiter wohnt
Original language
German
Spoken on screen
No dialogue
Release dates
Germany · December 31, 1930
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No release date listed for United States.
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