Joyless street

Joyless street

An expressionistic account of economic and moral decay that focuses on the problems of the inhabitants of a street in decadent post World War I Vienna. Garbo plays a professor's daughter whose family security has been shattered by inflation and must now consider working in a brothel to keep her...

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Corporate Authors: New Era National Pictures, Synergy Entertainment
Other Authors: Pabst, G. W. (Georg Wilhelm), 1885-1967, Garbo, Greta, 1905-1990, Nielsen, Asta, 1881-1972, Krauss, Werner, 1884-1959, Bettauer, Hugo, 1872-1925
Format: Video DVD
Language:English
German
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Synergy Entertainment, [200-]
Series:Synergy archive series.
Subjects:
Bettauer, Hugo, > 1872-1925 > Film adaptations.
Feature films > Germany.
Foreign films.
Motion pictures, German.
Silent films.
Expressionism.
Austria > History > 1918-1938 > Drama.
Vienna (Austria) > Economic conditions > Drama.
Item Description:
  • From the novel by Hugo Bettauer.
  • Originally released as a motion picture in 1925 as Die Freudlose Gasse; this version appears to be the heavily edited 1930s American reissue that eliminates most of the Asta Nielsen subplot.
  • A foreign film (Germany)
  • DVD (NTSC).

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Barcode: 37684001061775 Available

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