Joyless Street

Joyless Street
Video cover for short US version
Die freudlose Gasse
Directed byGeorg Wilhelm Pabst
Written by
Produced by
  • Michael Salkin
  • Romain Pinès
Starring
Cinematography
Edited byMark Sorkin
Production
company
Sofar-Film-Produktion GmbH
Distributed bySofar-Film-Produktion GmbH
Release date
  • 18 May 1925 (1925-05-18) (Germany)
[1]
Running time
151 minutes (restored version)[2]
CountryGermany
Languages

Joyless Street (German: Die freudlose Gasse), also titled The Street of Sorrow or The Joyless Street,[3] is a 1925 German silent film directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst starring Greta Garbo, Asta Nielsen and Werner Krauss.[4] It is based on a novel by Hugo Bettauer and widely considered an expression of New Objectivity in film.[5]

  1. ^ Prinzler, Hans Helmut; Gebauer, Dorothea; Seidler, Walther, eds. (1986). Verleihkatalog Nr. 1. Deutsches Institut für Filmkunde (DIF), Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek (SDK). pp. 111–112.
  2. ^ "Die freudlose Gasse". Filmdienst (in German). Retrieved 11 December 2022.
  3. ^ Walker, Alexander (October 1980). Garbo: A Portrait. Macmillan. p. 183. ISBN 978-0-02-622950-0.
  4. ^ Nielsen, Asta (2022). Allen, Julie K. (ed.). The Silent Muse: The Memoirs of Asta Nielsen. Boydell & Brewer. p. xiii. ISBN 9781640141261.
  5. ^ Töteberg, Michael, ed. (1995). Metzler Film Lexikon. J.B. Metzler. p. 216. ISBN 9783476009463.