Die Freudlose Gasse (The Joyless Street)

Die Freudlose Gasse (The Joyless Street) (1925)

  • 75% of critics liked it
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G. W. Pabst's The Joyless Street (Die freudlose Gasse) is an unvarnished study of post-World War I Vienna. Plagued with skyrocketing inflation, the Austrian metropolis becomes the domain of every scurrilous form of profiteering. The central character is a crooked butcher, whose negative influence… More

Unrated, 1 hr. 36 min.
Directed By
Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Written By
Hugo Bettauer, F.H. Lyon
Genres
Art House & International, Drama
In Theaters
Jan 1, 1925 Limited

Critic Reviews

  • Variety Staff, Variety

    The picture has minor virtues and major defects.

  • Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader

    Despite Garbo, it's heavy going -- an official classic that hasn't quite earned the title.

  • Douglas Pratt, DVDLaser

    about the consequences of desperate poverty and decadent wealth

  • , Time Out

    It later came as a major revelation, both when compared with Pabst's later work and in the context of the development of a film narrative able to accommodate a large number of characters.

  • , Film4

    As the film cuts between scenes of wretched poverty and luxurious excess, Pabst's imagery and Garbo's magnetic presence more than make up for a rather weak drama.

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