Joyless Street

Name: Joyless Street
Director: G.W. Pabst
Genre: Drama
Released: 1925-03-01
Rating: 6.7
Cast: Werner Krauss, Jaro Fürth, Greta Garbo, Asta Nielsen, Agnes Esterhazy

“Open any door in Melchior Alley, and you'll come face to face with naked misery.”

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.