Joyless Street

1925 Drama

2h 5min

Marie (Asta Nielsen) and Greta (Greta Garbo) are two women forced to consider prostitution as a means of surviving in the poor city streets, typical of a strassefilme. Murder, corruption, and despair litter this landmark of the New Objectivity movement.

Directed by	Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Written by	Hugo Bettauer, F.H. Lyon
Original title	Die freudlose Gasse
Original lang.	German
Country	Germany

Starring

Greta Garbo

Asta Nielsen

Ágnes Eszterházy

Werner Krauss

Henry Stuart

Einar Hanson

Gregori Chmara

Karl Etlinger

Ilka Grüning

Jaro Fürth

Renate Brausewetter

Mario Cusmich

Maria Forescu

Robert Garrison

Valeska Gert

Tamara Geva

Max Kohlhase

Krafft-Raschig

Lya Mara

Edna Markstein

Alexander Murski

Loni Nest

Iván Petrovich

Raskatoff

Otto Reinwald