Burch discusses the German silent cinema virtually unknown today-landmark German films like Billy Wilder/ Robert Siodmak and Edgar Ulmer's People on Sunday, Brecht and Dudow's Kuhle Wampe and Jutzi's Berlin Alexanderplatz. These films were part of the "populist" cinema of the Weimer Republic, the German Worker's Film. Ironically, these films were ultimately replaced by the more palatable and cheerful films of Siodmak and Wilder, and the victory of Nazism.