1925 film by Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Joyless Street Video cover for short US version
Die freudlose Gasse Directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst Written by Produced by Michael Salkin Romain Pinès Starring Cinematography Edited by Mark Sorkin Production company
Sofar-Film-Produktion GmbH
Distributed by Sofar-Film-Produktion GmbH Release date
18 May 1925 (1925-05-18 ) (Germany)
[ 1] Running time
151 minutes (restored version)[ 2] Country Germany 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]
^ Prinzler, Hans Helmut; Gebauer, Dorothea; Seidler, Walther, eds. (1986). Verleihkatalog Nr. 1 . Deutsches Institut für Filmkunde (DIF), Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek (SDK). pp. 111–112.
^ "Die freudlose Gasse" . Filmdienst (in German). Retrieved 11 December 2022 .
^ Walker, Alexander (October 1980). Garbo: A Portrait . Macmillan. p. 183. ISBN 978-0-02-622950-0 .
^ Nielsen, Asta (2022). Allen, Julie K. (ed.). The Silent Muse: The Memoirs of Asta Nielsen . Boydell & Brewer. p. xiii. ISBN 9781640141261 .
^ Töteberg, Michael, ed. (1995). Metzler Film Lexikon . J.B. Metzler. p. 216. ISBN 9783476009463 .