Beyond the Street (1929)

Original title

Jenseits der Straße

Directed by

Leo Mittler

Genre

drama film, silent film

Country

Germany

Runtime

1h 14m

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 7 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film follows poor people living in a port city neighborhood, struggling with crime and desperation. A young woman and an older man try to survive in a harsh urban environment.

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What happens

Beyond the Street (German: Jenseits der Straße) is a 1929 German silent drama film directed by Leo Mittler and starring Lissy Arna, Paul Rehkopf, and Fritz Genschow. The film is in the Weimar tradition of "street films", which examined the lower-depths of society, and has become the film for which Mittler is best known, even though he had only been appointed to make it after another director had to withdraw. The film was produced by the left-wing Prometheus Film, a German subsidiary of the Soviet company Mezhrabpom-Film. The film is also known by the alternative title Harbor Drift. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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