Joyless Street

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

6.719252h 35mReleased

Drama

Overview

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.

StatusReleased

Release Date1925-03-01

Runtime2h 35m

LanguagesNo Language

CountriesGermany

Keywords

nightclub

butcher

securities, stocks and bonds

Stream

Fandor Amazon Channel

Buy

Amazon Video

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Cast & Crew

Werner Krauss

as Josef Geiringer

Jaro Fürth

as Hofrat Rumfort

Greta Garbo

as Greta Rumfort

Asta Nielsen

as Maria Lechner (Mizzi)

Agnes Esterhazy

as Regine

Karl Etlinger

as Generaldirektor Rosenow

Henry Stuart

Einar Hanson

Ilka Grüning

Gregori Chmara

Reviews

CinemaSerf

Jun 6, 2022

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 the…

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