Joyless Street

Open any door in Melchior Alley, and you'll come face to face with naked misery.

APPROPIATE

1925 / 155min.

Rating6.724

Genres

Drama

Synopsis

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.

Directors

G.W. Pabst

Actors

Alexander Murski

Einar Hanson

Asta Nielsen

Werner Krauss

Greta Garbo

Hertha von Walther

Karl Etlinger

Jaro Fürth

Gregori Chmara

Ilka Grüning

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