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The Joyless Street
The Joyless Street
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THE JOYLESS STREET

Die freudlose Gasse

Directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Germany, 1925
Drama, Silent

Synopsis

Plagued with rising inflation, the Austrian metropolis becomes the domain of every scurrilous form of profiteering. The central character is a crooked butcher, whose negative influence dominates the lives of virtually everyone on a single Viennese street.
(Also known as The Street of Sorrow.)

Synopsis

Plagued with rising inflation, the Austrian metropolis becomes the domain of every scurrilous form of profiteering. The central character is a crooked butcher, whose negative influence dominates the lives of virtually everyone on a single Viennese street.
(Also known as The Street of Sorrow.)