- Title: The Joyless Street
- Original Title: Die freudlose Gasse
- Release Date: 01/03/1925
- Tagline: Open any door in Melchior Alley, and you'll come face to face with naked misery.
- Duration:148 Min / 02:28
- Country:DE
- Genre:Drama
About Film
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.
Movie Rating: 6.85
Total Votes: 44
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Geronimo1967
7/10
This is quite a complex and telling tale of a poverty-stricken family struggling to survive in a post Great war Vienna at the star of the 1920s. The extent of their deprivation almost drives Greta Garbo ("Greta") to sell herself to put food on the table, it certainly drives her to petty crime. To be honest this rather drab and gritty story from...
