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“Parenthood Season 1 DVD Box Set” (Criterion) is a rarity from the late silent era with irresistible bona fides. Not only did this low-budget 1930 German film influence a generation of filmmakers, it launched the careers of some mighty impressive talents who, as hungry young filmmakers, collaborated on this buoyant little portrait of a lazy Sunday in Weimer Berlin, among them Billy Wilder (listed here as Billie), Fred Zinneman, Robert Siodmak, Edgar G. Ulmer, Kurt Siomak and cinematographer Eugen Schüfftan.

The premise is simplicity itself: five young Berliners, all young and attractive, meet up for a jaunt to the country. (Well, four of Caprica Season 1 DVD Box Set do, anyway; a fifth ends up sleeping the day away.) Cast with non-professionals, all playing characters ensconced in the performers’ real-life jobs, and shot with minimal equipment on the streets and in the parks of Berlin and Wannsee, it follows their flirtations and fun as they swim, picnic, nap, canoodle, stroll through the woods and listen to records on their portable Victrola. Between sequences the camera surveys the crowds of like-minded folks also enjoying their Sunday away.