Only Grete seems to have any hope of leaving Melchiorgasse, and this because of her relationship with an Shortly after its release, different versions of the film circulated because of censorship cuts.
After falling pregnant to a pharmacist and refusing to marry, a young woman is thrown from her home and sent to a strict girls' reform school. After falling pregnant to a pharmacist and refusing to marry, a young woman is thrown from her home and sent to a strict girls' reform school. Certificate: Passed
Apparently the original version is lost, but there is a longer version somewhere. This is not that film.
And it is the film that catapulted its director into the top echelon of German screen directors à la Fritz Lang or F.W.Murnau: Georg Wilhelm Papst, who later, with Louise Brooks, would make silents that were no less stylistically influential, as well as masterpieces of the early German sound cinema.
Certificate: Passed Both have fallen on hard times in the post-WWI era and both feel responsible enough for their families to compromise their morality in exchange for food and the trappings of wealth.
The Joyless Street in one of the great classics of the German silent cinema. This film was made in 1927, and, two years later, this unthinkable poverty took over America.
The nightclub burns down killing Else and her husband in the attic, but not before allowing them to ease their infant safely to the waiting poor. Certificate: Passed An architect tries suppressing his passion for a seductive woman.
The poor of the neighborhood, hearing the sounds of the nightclub, revolt against the clients by throwing stones. In a slum, Lila Leid, the wife of lawyer Leid is murdered, Egon, secretary of one of Leid's clients is arrested. An architect tries suppressing his passion for a seductive woman. Freshen up your watchlist with Prime Video’s latest roster of movies and TV shows, featuring Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? A sideshow ventriloquist, midget, and strongman form a conspiracy known as "The Unholy Three" and commit a series of robberies.
Very disappointing. Vienna in the biggest depression, directly after WW1.
JOYLESS STREET features the stories of two women: the daughter of an immpoverished army veteran and the daughter of a retired civil servant.
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. The original version was over 2 hours. The Joyless Street (1925) is not Pabst's most confident work, but it is absorbing and stylish, and features the then reigning queen of international cinema, Asta Nielsen, and her heir apparent, teen-aged Greta Garbo.
Virtually all scenes involving the film's co-star, Asta Nielson, have been cut. The Joyless Street in one of the great classics of the German silent cinema.
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It is an edited version made later on to capitalize on Garbo's success, interspersed with blob-like English intertitle cards, and most of the top-billed Nielsen's scenes excised.
The film, which deals with the interwoven stories of various woman in Vienna at the time of great inflation, represents German silent cinema's move away from the fantastic tales of its Expressionist works towards the portrayal of everyday reality that heralded the style of the New Objectivity. A young girl and her father are kicked out of their house by a cruel noblewoman, and the girl's heart is broken when her sweetheart, the noblewoman's son, won't go to Paris with them. 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. The Joyless Street (1925) is not Pabst's most confident work, but it is absorbing and stylish, and features the then reigning queen of international cinema, Asta Nielsen, and her heir apparent, teen-aged Greta Garbo. Certificate: Passed This also has no music track and it is hacked to bits. Childhood friends are torn apart when one of them marries the woman the other once fiercely loved. Was this review helpful to you? Whoever put it together did so on the cheap, and with diminished care: it comes from a less than pristine print, the editing has sloppy moments, and they actually stooped to the artless convention of adding random classical music as soundtrack, in this case, Mozart Horn Concertos (at least at the start: I had to turned the volume down when the happy music began pouncing all over the sad pictures).
And it is the film that catapulted its director into the top echelon of German screen directors à la Fritz Lang or F.W.Murnau: Georg Wilhelm Papst, who later, with Louise Brooks, would make silents that were no less stylistically influential, as well as masterpieces of the early German sound cinema. A young man shows his millionaire grandfather a film based on Molière's Tartuffe, in order to expose the old man's hypocritical governess who covets his own inheritance.
As for Marie, after being screamed at by her father for failing to bring home At the finale, Else, a wife and mother, who previously provided sexual favors to the butcher for meat, kills the butcher because he refuses her any more meat.
A sideshow ventriloquist, midget, and strongman form a conspiracy known as "The Unholy Three" and commit a series of robberies.
In a slum, Lila Leid, the wife of lawyer Leid is murdered, Egon, secretary of one of Leid's clients is arrested.
Drama Both have fallen on hard times in the post-WWI era and both feel responsible enough for their families to compromise their morality in exchange for food and the trappings of wealth.
This is not that film.
The Filmmuseum in Munich restored the film in 1999 to its original length.Greta Garbo by Alexander Binder during the filming of Certificate: Passed