How the Berlin Worker Lives
- IMDb link: 0170834
- IMDb rating: 6.4 (62 votes) Search
- Genres: Short, Documentary
- Director: Slatan Dudow
- Release year: 1930
- Runtime: 12 minutes
- Country: Germany
- Keywords: housing shortage, housing, lodger, working class, living conditions, contrast, eviction, class differences, lack of money, year 1930, Zeitprobleme: wie der Arbeiter wohnt
Plot:
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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