
Professor Munk is a respected and successful composer. After a premiere, he meets the beautiful and unscrupulous whore Asta on the street and falls completely in love with her.

There are films you watch and films that watch you—Menschen im Rausch belongs to the latter, its gaze fixed like a predator that knows you crave the very poison it secretes. Director Artur Landsberger, working from his own scalpel-sharp scenario, engineers a Berlin that swings between chandeliered salons and spit-slic...

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" There are films you watch and films that watch you—Menschen im Rausch belongs to the latter, its gaze fixed like a predator that knows you crave the very poison it secretes. Director Artur Landsberger, working from his own scalpel-sharp scenario, engineers a Berlin that swings between chandeliered salons and spit-slick cabarets without a single optical fade; the transition is psychological, a blink that drags us from Mozart to muck. Fritz Alberti’s Professor Munk enters in phosphorescent white ..."

Conrad Veidt
Artur Landsberger
Germany


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