

Joyless Street
“Open any door in Melchior Alley, and you'll come face to face with naked misery.”
6.7(49)19252h 35m
Drama
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.
Director
G.W. Pabst
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Reviews
1 review
Geronimo1967
3y ago
7.0
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 "...
























