Joyless Street

1925 PG-13 2h 35m

6.7 / 10 50

RATING

6.7/10

YOUR RATING

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.

Director G.W. Pabst

Writers

Willy Haas Hugo Bettauer

Stars

Werner Krauss Jaro Fürth Greta Garbo

Maria Lechner (Mizzi)

Agnes Esterhazy

Regine

Karl Etlinger

Generaldirektor Rosenow

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Geronimo1967 6 Jun 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 pen of Hugo Bettauer (who also wrote the superb "...