Überflüssige Menschen

Superfluous People is a 1926 German silent film made by Prometheus-Film which was affiliated to the German Communist Party and the Moscow-based Mezhrabpomfilm. Russia, at the time of Tsarist rule. At the center of the plot are several lower middle class people with their worries and needs in a shtetl in the deepest province that is disconnected from major world events: they are down-to-earth craftsmen and service providers like the carpenter Bronsa.