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

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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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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• More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.