View Item - GR-F025-1998

Language:
German
Duration:
145 Minutes
Catalog Num:
GR-F025-1998
Title:
Die freudlose Gasse (The Joyless Street)
Item Type:
Video
Medium:
VHS
Program:
German

Reserved:
No
Status:
Available

Vienna in the Great Depression, after WWI. In a slum, Lila Leid, the wife of lawyer Leid is murdered. Egon, secretary of one of Leid`s clients, is arrested. He was with her, and had her necklace, because he needed some money for his own stock exchange deals. The same deal brings poverty to ex-government official Rumfort. Rumfort`s daughter Greta, who has also lost her job, tries to get some money to get food. She rents a room of the flat in which she, her young sister and her father are living, to an American Red Cross official, who pays $60 rent. However, the money is taken by some of her father`s creditors. Their neighbour, shop owner Mrs. Greifer knows how to "help": she and Mrs. Merkel run a nightclub/brothel... Notes: Newly restored version from 1998. Director: G. W. Papst. Black and white. Country: Germany. No subtitles.

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