Superfluous People

{{short description|1926 film}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2020}} {{Infobox film | name = Superfluous People | image = | caption = | director = Aleksandr Razumny | producer = Willi Münzenberg | writer = {{ubl|Anton Chekhov|Aleksandr Razumny}} | narrator = | starring = {{ubl|Eugen Klöpfer|Camilla von Hollay|Heinrich George}} | music = Edmund Meisel | editing = | cinematography = {{ubl|Karl Attenberger|Otto Kanturek}} | studio = Prometheus-Film | distributor = Prometheus-Film | released = {{Film date|1926|11|02|df=yes}} | runtime = | country = Germany | language = {{ubl|Silent|German intertitles}} | budget = | gross = }} '''''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.<ref>Murray</ref> 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.

==Cast== * Eugen Klöpfer as Andrej Karlowitsch Siganew * Camilla von Hollay as Dunja Siganewa * Heinrich George as Balagula * Albert Steinrück as Bronsa * Vera Pawlowa as Marfa * Bruno Arno as Mendel Rothschild * Fritz Rasp as Chirikov * Emil Lind as Schachkes * Werner Krauss as Ortspolizist Suka * Philipp Manning as Bürgermeister Duboff * Hedwig Wangel as Duboffs Frau * Elza Temary as Ola, beider Tochter * Illo Gutschwager as Wanja, beider Sohn * Hans Brausewetter as Lukin * Wilhelm Diegelmann as Brandmeister * Fritz Kampers as Ben Span * Jaro Fürth as Arzt * Nikolai Malikoff as Bader * Vera Sacharowa as Verlobungsgast * Harry Nestor * Clementine Plessner * Sylvia Torf

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Bibliography== * Murray, Bruce Arthur. ''Film and the German Left in the Weimar Republic: From Caligari to Kuhle Wampe''. University of Texas Press, 1990.

==External links== *{{IMDb title|0017587}}

Category:1926 films Category:Films of the Weimar Republic Category:Films directed by Aleksandr Razumnyj Category:German silent feature films Category:German black-and-white films Category:Films scored by Edmund Meisel