Representações de lazer e de suas implicações políticas no Cinema da República de Weimar

This article aims to analyze the representations of leisure in two films from Weimar Republic German cinema: Metropolis, directed by Fritz Lang and released in 1927, and Menschenam Sonntag (People on Sunday), directed by Robert Siodmak and Edgar G. Ulmer and released in 1930. To this end, we start from the premise that cinema is a privileged field of symbolic disputes, functioning as medium for the construction of social representations. In the context of interwar Germany ‒ marked by tensions and political, cultural, and social conflicts ‒ leisure became a contested theme, both in everyday life and on the screen. Through film analysis, focusing on selected film stills, we seek to achieve the stated objective. Functioning almost as an ethnography of everyday life, People on Sunday distances itself from Metropolis, following distinct aesthetic and political paths and reflecting the political tensions of the period

Ethnography · German · Movie theater · Politics · Premise · Weimar Republic · Hume's philosophy and hair distribution · Physical education and sports games research · Physical Education and Sports Studies