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Street Without Joy (1938)

Street Without Joy poster
Original title
La Rue sans joie
Directed by
André Hugon
Genre
drama film
Country
France
Runtime
1h 27m
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This is a French drama about poor people struggling to survive in a bad neighborhood. A woman gets involved with a dangerous man to escape her difficult life.

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What happens

Street Without Joy (French: La rue sans joie) is a 1938 French drama film directed by André Hugon and starring Dita Parlo, Albert Préjean and Marguerite Deval. It is a remake of the 1925 German film The Joyless Street directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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