description Joyless Street Overview
Joyless Street is a 1925 German silent film directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst. Featuring Greta Garbo and Asta Nielsen, the movie was adapted from Hugo Bettauer’s novel and exemplifies the Expressionist movement known as New Objectivity. It stars Werner Krauss in a story set within a bleak urban environment.
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info Joyless Street Specifications
| Country | Germany |
| Year | 1925 |
help Joyless Street FAQ
Why are people queuing outside the butcher shop in Joyless Street?
The story takes place amid postwar inflation and food scarcity in Vienna, where butcher Geiringer controls access to meat. His power over desperate residents makes the queue one of the film's sharpest images of economic inequality.
Do Greta Garbo and Asta Nielsen play characters in the same family?
No, they lead parallel stories on Melchior Street. Garbo plays Greta Rumfort, while Nielsen plays Maria Lechner, and each woman faces a different form of financial and sexual exploitation.
Is Joyless Street an Expressionist film?
It is more often associated with the New Objectivity movement and its socially observant approach than with the distorted sets of pure German Expressionism. G.W. Pabst uses melodrama to examine inflation, hunger, class, and prostitution.
Why do different versions of Joyless Street have different runtimes?
The 1925 film was heavily censored and recut for different national markets, leaving multiple shortened versions in circulation. Restorations attempt to reconstruct Pabst's longer narrative from surviving prints and archival evidence.
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