Joyless Street (1925)
- Original title
- Die freudlose Gasse
- Directed by
- Georg Wilhelm Pabst
- Genre
- drama film, silent film
- Country
- Germany
- Runtime
- 2h 28m
- Rated
- 15
- Rating
- 6.7 of 10 from 51 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
In post-war Vienna, a group of women struggle with poverty and despair. The story follows two young women as they face difficult choices to survive in a harsh, corrupt society.
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What happens
Joyless Street (German: Die freudlose Gasse), also titled The Street of Sorrow or The Joyless Street, is a 1925 German silent film directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst starring Greta Garbo, Asta Nielsen and Werner Krauss. It is based on a novel by Hugo Bettauer and widely considered an expression of New Objectivity in film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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