The Joyless Street (1925)
3.6 of 5 from 45 ratings
2h 5min
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- Synopsis:
Vienna in the biggest depression, directly after WW1. In a slum, Lila Leid (Dorothea Thiele), the wife of lawyer Leid is murdered, Egon (Henry Stuart), secretary of one of Leid's clients is arrested. He was with her, and had her necklace, because he needed some money for his own stock exchange deals. The same deal brings poverty to ex-government official Rumfort (Jaro Fürth), his daughter Greta (Greta Garbo), who also has lost her job, tries to get some money to get food. She rents a room of the flat she, her young sister and her father are living in to an American Red Cross official, who pays $60 rent, but the money is taken by some of her father's creditors. But their neighbour, shop owner Mrs Greifer (Valeska Gert) knows how to "help", she and Mrs. Merkel (Edna Markstein) are running a nightclub with a brothel... - Actors:
- Asta Nielsen, Greta Garbo, Ágnes Eszterházy, Werner Krauss, Henry Stuart, Einar Hanson, Gregori Chmara, Karl Etlinger, Ilka Grüning, Jaro Fürth, Dorothea Thiele, Renate Brausewetter, Mario Cusmich, Maria Forescu, Robert Garrison, Valeska Gert, Max Kohlhase, Krafft-Raschig, Lya Mara, Edna Markstein
- Directors:
- Georg Wilhelm Pabst
- Producers:
- Romain Pinès, Michael Salkind
- Writers:
- Hugo Bettauer, F.H. Lyon, Willy Haas
- Aka:
- The Street of Sorrow
- Genres:
- Classics, Drama
- Collections:
- A Brief History of Film...
- Countries:
- Germany
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