People in the Sorm (German: Menschen im Sturm) is a 1941 German drama film directed by Fritz Peter Buch and starring Gustav Diessl, Olga Tschechowa and Hannelore Schroth. It was an anti-Serbian propaganda and part of a concerted propaganda push against Serbs, attempting to split them from the Croats. It was shot at the Johannisthal Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Hans Kuhnert and Artur Nortmann.
Vera witnesses the persecution of ethnic Germans in Yugoslavia, which awakens her ethnic consciousness. Her cosmopolitan friend Alexander is arrested. Vera flirts with the Serbian commander to allow Volksdeutsche to escape to the border. When arrested, she proudly affirms that she helped her countrymen and, in an escape attempt, is shot, to die happy and heroic.
The film was shot on locations in Hrvatsko Zagorje, then-Independent State of Croatia, in July 1941. Its Zagreb premiere was held on 21 March 1942.
Unusually, contemporary Viennese film magazine ' classified the film as "forbidden for the youth" ().
The film reprises many of the same motifs as Heimkehr, in an anti-Serbian rather than anti-Polish context.
A sympathetic Croat aids the Germans, stating that all Croats should be friendly, and is murdered by Serbs for it, reflecting a widespread cliche of the friendly Croat.