header image
poster image

The Joyless Street

    Drama
68%tmdb logo
•
Mar 1, 1925
Rating Unavailable

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.

Details

  • Directors
  • Vote Average
    6.8
  • Vote Count
    41
  • Popularity
    8
  • Language
    No Language
  • Origin Country
    DE

StreamingJustWatch Logo

  • Fandor Amazon Channel logo

    • Cast

    Background image 1
    Werner Krauß
    Josef Geiringer
    Background image 2
    Jaro Fürth
    Hofrat Rumfort
    Background image 3
    Greta Garbo
    Greta Rumfort
    Background image 4
    Asta Nielsen
    Maria Lechner (Mizzi)
    Background image 5
    Agnes Esterhazy
    Regine
    Background image 6
    Karl Etlinger
    Generaldirektor Rosenow
    Background image 7
    Henry Stuart
    Background image 8
    Einar Hanson
    Background image 9
    Ilka Grüning
    Background image 10
    Gregori Chmara
    Background image 11
    Robert Garrison
    Background image 12
    Alexander Murski
    Background image 13
    Valeska Gert
    Background image 14
    Hertha von Walther
    Background image 15
    Otto Reinwald
    Background image 16
    Sylvia Torff
    Background image 17
    Loni Nest
    Background image 18
    Mario Cusmich

    Recommended

    Ninotchka
    A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.
    Item image
    Letter from an Unknown Woman
    A pianist about to flee from a duel receives a letter from a woman he cannot remember. As she tells the story of her lifelong love for him, he is forced to reinterpret his own past.
    Item image
    Fig Leaves
    Adam, a plumber, is happily married to Eve, a wardrobe-obsessed housewife, until she accidentally meets a supercilious fashion designer. At the prompting of her neighbor, who has secret designs on Adam, Eve secretly becomes a fashion model by day, knowing that her husband would disapprove.
    Item image
    The White Hell of Pitz Palu
    Dr. Johannes Krafft climbs a 12,000-foot mountain over and over again to search for his wife, who was lost on their honeymoon. Another couple makes the dangerous climb with him.
    Item image
    In a Lonely Place
    A screenwriter with a violent temper is a murder suspect until his lovely neighbor clears him. However, she soon starts to have her doubts.
    Item image
    Hit Man
    A mild-mannered professor moonlighting as a fake hit man in police stings ignites a chain reaction of trouble when he falls for a potential client.
    Item image
    House of Pleasures
    The dawn of the 20th century: L’Apollonide, a luxurious and traditional brothel in Paris, is living its last days. In this closed world, where some men fall in love and others become viciously harmful, the women share their secrets, their fears, their joys and their pains.
    Item image
    Talcum Powder
    Sergio Benvenuti is a shy seller of contracts for a Roman company of music, but because of his character he cannot find even a customer, so he asks for help from a fellow named Nadia.
    Item image
    La Dolce Vita
    Episodic journey of journalist Marcello who struggles to find his place in the world, torn between the allure of Rome's elite social scene and the stifling domesticity offered by his girlfriend, all the while searching for a way to become a serious writer.
    Item image
    The Thin Man
    A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.
    Item image
    Alcarràs
    In a small village in Catalonia, the peach farmers of the Solé family spend every summer together picking fruit from their orchard. But when plans arise to install solar panels and cut down trees, the members of this tight-knit group suddenly face eviction – and the loss of far more than their home.
    Item image

    Reviews

    (1)
    CinemaSerf
    70%
    This is quite a complex and telling tale of a poverty-stricken family struggling to survive in a post Great war Vienna at the star of the 1920s. The extent of their deprivation almost drives Greta Garbo ("Greta") to sell herself to put food on the table, it certainly drives her to petty crime. To be honest this rather drab and gritty story from the pen of Hugo Bettauer (who also wrote the superb "City Without Jews" (1938)) is, in itself, nothing particular to write home about - It's the excellent, earthy and well crafted performances from the sisters "Marie" (Asta Nielsen) and Garbo alongside that of their really quite greedy father "Hofrat Rumport" (Jaro Fürth) and the truly odious people peddler "Metzger" (Werner Krauss) that penetrate deeply. We see a side of a city usually presented accompanied by divine Strauss waltzes with grand costumes and the palaces shown in a completely different light. The direction from Georg Pabst is effective at, though in no great hurry to, immersing us in the true ghastliness of their situations. Garbo, quite literally, shines - her eyes and her features, frequently in intensely potent close up, really breathes life into the production that though quite long, is never dull.