Fliegende Händler in Frankfurt am Main

Summary

Travelling hawkers in Frankfurt on Main

A documentary about unemployed people who bought fruit and vegetables at moderate prices at the wholesale market and sold these in the streets of Frankfurt. Since they had no permits they were constantly with their bulky carts on the run from the police. One part of the film was shot at the fairgrounds in front of the wholesale market. Newspaper and lottery ticket vendors, propagandists offering their ware for a few pfennigs, all convey the mood of a time when need made people inventive.

The film is extant in a work copy from 1934/35 (for which Ella Bergmann-Michel had the original material reduced to a 16mm safe copy) without film titles or final credits and has not been publicly shown since. There is also a longer rough cut copy of the 35mm material.