liked acting and appeared later in small roles in two other films also directed by Robert Siodmak, Abschied (1930) and Voruntersuchung (1931). In 1931 he was killed when his own taxi accidentally ran over him. , the record shop sales assistant. She was selling records when she was discovered for this film. It was her only role. She married the illustrator Wilhelm M. Busch in 1936, appeared in Weekend am Wannsee, a documentary about People on Sunday, in 2000, and died in Hamburg-Blankenese in August 2011, aged 100. , the wine shop sales assistant. He was born into a wealthy family in Bavaria in 1900 and was a descendant of Georg Friedrich Sartorius. He later had small roles in two other films. Under the Third Reich he worked in mining and in post-war West Germany he sold books and audiocassettes. He was married twice and died in 1973. , the film extra. She was born in 1910, the daughter of a harpsichordist and an artist. She left Germany in 1933 and lived with her mother in the United States. She had a bit part in the Hollywood film Escape (1940). She later married and had four more children, in addition to one child from a previous marriage. She worked with her husband in a family-owned aircraft company and also had her own vitamin business. Christina and her husband died together when their private plane crashed in New Mexico in 1960. Annie Schreyer, the model. There appears to be no information available about her. Four well-known actors of the Weimar Republic appear in small roles: Kurt Gerron as himself Valeska Gert as herself Heinrich Gretler as himself Ernö Verebes as himself Reception Contemporary critics regarded the movie as an accurate and laconic portrayal of the Berlin they knew and saw the closing intertitles as an accurate claim that these characters represent ordinary real-life Berliners. In retrospect, these closing words have gained an ironic poignancy in light of the later horrors of Nazi Germany. Revivals In the autumn of 2002, Menschen am Sonntag was presented at one of Berlin's popular Jewish Culture Days. The Berlin-based Eastern European group Trio Bravo+ was commissioned to produce a new silent movie score for the film, which proved highly successful and was subsequently released as a standalone soundtrack CD. In 2005, the Netherlands Film Institute released an updated DVD of the film, restoring some missing scenes