Dirnentragödie

Dirnentragödie

🎞️ Movie 85 min DE
โ˜… 6.6 /10 1927

Before road movies there were street films, a distinct cycle within German silent cinema. The essential ingredient - misalliance between bourgeois and slum dweller - is present here, though somewhat displaced by Asta Nielsen's star persona. She plays an aging hooker who falls for handsome Felix, a student who has rowed with his parents and ventured into the lower depths. Dreaming of a new life, she ejects her pimp and invests her savings in a cake shop. Even without that title, though, you wouldn't bet on a happy ending. Nielsen is a quite restrained sort of diva, and Rahn likewise soft pedals the melodrama, except for the grand finale. He died soon after making this, his contemporaries regretting the masterworks the cinema was thus denied. Well, maybe.

Cast

Asta Nielsen
Asta Nielsen
Auguste - Old Street Walker
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Hilde Jennings
Clarissa - Young Street Walker
Oscar Homolka
Oscar Homolka
Anton - Pimp
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Werner Pittschau
Felix - Student
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Hedwig Pauly-Winterstein
His Mother
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Otto Kronburger
His Father
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Hermann Picha
Kauzke - Pianist
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Gerhard Dammann
Eva Speyer
Eva Speyer
Dirne - Prostitute
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Felix Bartsch
Composer
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Guido Seeber
Cinematographer