The Joyless Street

The Joyless Street

Die freudlose Gasse
🎞️ Movie 125 min DE
โ˜… 7.1 /10 1925

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

Vienna in the biggest depression, directly after WW1. In a slum, Lila Leid, the wife of lawyer Leid is murdered, Egon, secretary of one of Leid's clients is arrested. He was with her, and had her necklace, because he needed some money for his own stock exchange deals. The same deal brings poverty to ex-government official Rumfort, his daughter Greta, who also has lost her job, tries to get some money to get food. She rents a room of the flat she, her young sister and her father are living in to an American Red Cross official, who pays $60 rent, but the money is taken by some of her father's creditors. But their neighbour, shop owner Mrs Greifer knows how to 'help', she and Mrs. Merkel are running a nightclub with a brothel...

Cast

Asta Nielsen
Asta Nielsen
Maria Lechner
Greta Garbo
Greta Garbo
Greta Rumfort
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Ágnes Eszterházy
Regina Rosenow
Werner Krauss
Werner Krauss
Metzger von Melchiorstrasse
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Henry Stuart
Egon Stirner
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Einar Hanson
Lt. Davis
Gregori Chmara
Gregori Chmara
Kellner
Karl Etlinger
Karl Etlinger
Max Rosenow
Ilka Grüning
Ilka Grüning
Frau Rosenow
Jaro Fürth
Jaro Fürth
Hofrat Rumfort
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Robert Lach
Cinematographer
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Curt Oertel
Cinematographer
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Guido Seeber
Cinematographer