Joyless Street
Open any door in Melchior Alley, and you'll come face to face with naked misery.
- 1925
- 2h 35m
- Drama
Rating: 6.8 out of 10TMDB(52 votes)
Overview
In 1921, we follow two women - Marie and Grete - from the same poor Viennese neighborhood, as they try to better the lives of themselves and their families during the period of Austrian postwar hyperinflation.
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Setting
Set in Vienna
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Music
Music by Max Deutsch
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Curt Oertel, Guido Seeber and Robert Lach
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Willy HaasScreenplay
- Hugo BettauerNovel
- Original title
- Die freudlose Gasse
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- March 1, 1925
- Original language
- German
- Countries
- Germany
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Cast
Werner KraussJosef Geiringer
Jaro FürthHofrat Rumfort
Greta GarboGreta Rumfort
Asta NielsenMaria Lechner (Mizzi)
Agnes EsterhazyRegine
Karl EtlingerGeneraldirektor Rosenow
Henry Stuart
Einar Hanson
Ilka Grüning
Gregori Chmara
Robert Garrison
Alexander Murski- Valeska Gert
Hertha von Walther- Otto Reinwald
- Sylvia Torff
Loni Nest- Mario Cusmich
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