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Die freudlose Gasse / Joyless Street [Edition Filmmuseum 48] (1925)

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Die freudlose Gasse / Joyless Street [Edition Filmmuseum 48] (1925)

Die freudlose Gasse / Joyless Street [Edition Filmmuseum 48] (1925)
2xDVD9 | VIDEO_TS | PAL | 4:3 | 720x576 | 5800 kbps | 13.8Gb
Audio: German AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subtitles: English
Full Time: 151 minutes (main feature) | Germany | Drama

Inhabitants of a single street in Vienna fight to survive social unrest and economic turmoil in the wake of World War I.

Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Cast: Renate Brausewetter, Gregori Chmara, Mario Cusmich, Agnes Esterhazy, Karl Etlinger, Maria Forescu, Jaro Furth, Greta Garbo, Robert Garrison, Valeska Gert, Tamara Geva, Ilka Gruning, Einar Hanson, Max Kohlhase, Krafft-Raschig, Werner Krauss, Lya Mara, Edna Markstein, Alexander Murski, Loni Nest, Asta Nielsen, Ivan Petrovich, Raskatoff, Otto Reinwald, Henry Stuart, Grafin Tolstoi, Sylvia Torf, Hertha von Walther

DVD 1
- Die freudlose Gasse 1925, 151'
- Score for piano, violin and violoncello by Aljoscha Zimmermann
- Chapter selection

DVD 2
- Der andere Blick 1991/2009, 111'
- Pabst wieder sehen 1997, 21'
- Outtakes and Intakes 1925, 14'
- Sound document with memories of the assistent director Mark Sorkin 49'
- Screenplay drafts, shooting script and documents as ROM features

Die freudlose Gasse / Joyless Street [Edition Filmmuseum 48] (1925)


IMDb

Vienna in the biggest depression, directly after WW1. In a slum, Lila Leid, the wife of lawyer Leid is murdered, Egon, secretary of one of Leid's clients is arrested. He was with her, and had her necklace, because he needed some money for his own stock exchange deals. The same deal brings poverty to ex-government official Rumfort, his daughter Greta, who also has lost her job, tries to get some money to get food. 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. But their neighbour, shop owner Mrs Greifer knows how to "help", she and Mrs. Merkel are running a nightclub with a brothel…
~ Stephan Eichenberg

Die freudlose Gasse / Joyless Street [Edition Filmmuseum 48] (1925)

Die freudlose Gasse / Joyless Street [Edition Filmmuseum 48] (1925)


Edition FilmMuseum

Die freudlose Gasse (The Joyless Street) is not only one of the most important films of the Weimar Republic, it is also one of the most spectacular censorship cases of the era. The story from the inflationary period in Vienna in the years immediately after World War I was considered too much of a provocation: nouveau riches currency and stock market speculators who wallow in Babylonian luxury, homeless and unemployed Lumpenproletariat living in barns, women who sell their souls for a bit of fresh meat at the butcher's, sexual orgies, bordellos and murders. This unique 2-disc DVD set offers the improved most complete restored version of the film as well as a lot of additional material including an excellent documentary about the life

Die freudlose Gasse / Joyless Street [Edition Filmmuseum 48] (1925)

Die freudlose Gasse / Joyless Street [Edition Filmmuseum 48] (1925)