"Open any door in Melchior Alley, and you'll come face to face with naked misery."01 March 1925Drama155 mins
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.
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The Joyless Street
Vienna in the biggest depression directly after WW1. In a slum Lila Leid the wife of lawyer Leid is murdered Egon secretary of one of Leid's clients is arrested.
Die freudlose Gasse [The Joyless Street] (G.W. Pabst 1925): At the Carlton
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Die freudlose Gasse [The Joyless Street] (G.W. Pabst 1925): Final scene
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Trailer for THE JOYLESS STREET by G.W. Pabst + ins Fleisch by Interzone perceptible
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The Joyless Street (1925 clip from restored version)
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Popular movie trailers from 1925
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1925:
When drunken Canadian trapper Raoul La Fane attacks his young wife Marie, she takes a shot at him. La Fane falls, and Marie, thinking she killed him, flees into the white wilderness.
Jerry Chandler falls for the lovely Mimi Le Brun and she with him. He proposes marriage but Mimi wants money and security which he cannot provide so she becomes engaged to a wealthy man whom she does not love.
Dress model Sheila Conroy loses her job after ruining a gown she borrowed from her employer. Harlan, a criminal posing as a government agent, offers Sheila work as his assistant.
Ann, a 19-year-old girl who looks much younger, meets a dashing army major on a boat sailing from Liverpool to Bombay, India, and falls in love with him.
American sculptress Adele La Rue, working in Paris, lacks the inspiration to create a masterpiece, until Jean Ballard, a wild apache leader, takes refuge from the police in her apartment.