Weekend 1930

Weekend (1930) is a Music film from Germany in the lookmovie catalog, running 11m. Directed by Walter Ruttmann. Viewers rate it 5.9/10 from 4 votes. Wochende (Weekend) is a film initially commissioned by the Berlin Radio Hour. Prior to Weekend, Ruttmann had made numerous celebrated avant-garde films, namely Opus I-IV, and the spectacular Berlin: Symphony of a City (1927). The advent of sound films dawned, and, interested in how spectators perceive sound, he premiered a film without pictures. On June 13th, 1930, the audience took their seats, the lights went down, and the sound of the film was heard. But the screen was completely blank.