“Open any door in Melchior Alley, and you'll come face to face with naked misery.”
Joyless Street
6.7
51 votes·1925
·2h 35m
·MovieDrama
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.
Keywords
nightclubbutchersecurities, stocks and bonds teacherpost world war iprostitutionvienna, austriasilent filmnew objectivity
Cast
Werner Krauss
Josef Geiringer
Jaro Fürth
Hofrat Rumfort
Greta Garbo
Greta Rumfort
Asta Nielsen
Maria Lechner (Mizzi)
Agnes Esterhazy
Regine
Karl Etlinger
Generaldirektor Rosenow
Henry Stuart
Einar Hanson
Ilka Grüning
Gregori Chmara
Robert Garrison
Alexander Murski
Valeska Gert
Hertha von Walther
Otto Reinwald
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