Joyless Street (1925)

19251h 01mdir. Georg Wilhelm PabstGermanGermanysilent filmdrama film

Note: this print runs 61 minutes against a recorded 148 minutes. It is the best copy we have found; we keep looking for a complete print.

With Werner Krauss, Jaro Fürth, Greta Garbo, Loni Nest, Asta Nielsen, Sylvia Torff, Karl Etlinger, Ilka Grüning

Directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst

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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.

Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA. Streaming from the Internet Archive.

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