Die freudlose Gasse (The Street of Sorrow) (1925)




Greta Garbo - Die freudlose Gasse

Greta Garbo - Die freudlose Gasse




In post-war Vienna, there are many unscrupulous men and families who have been made destitute by the war. Franz Rumfort (Jaro Furth) is the head of one such poor family, and his daughter Greta (Greta Garbo) is trying to keep the family together. Maria Lechner (Asta Nielsen) is a member of this society and kills to prevent her lover from marrying someone else. She then surrenders to the authorities to save her lover. A butcher (Werner Krauss), who represents the kind of predatory individual that can arise in a post-war society, is killed by those he has mistreated. Greta is on the verge of becoming a woman of ill repute, but is saved by her father with the assistance of a Red Cross lieutenant (Einar Hanson).


Books with substantial mentioning of Die freudlose Gasse (The Street of Sorrow)

Hans Helmut Prinzler
Licht und Schatten, Die grossen Stumm- und Tonfilme der Weimarer Republik
München; Berlin, 2012

David Thomson
Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films
New York, 2008

Robert K. Klepper
Silent Films, 1877-1996, A Critical Guide to 646 Movies
Jefferson, North Carolina and London, 1999

Gerald Koll
Pandoras Schätze, Erotikkonzeptionen in den Stummfilmen von G. W. Pabst
München, 1998

Günther Dahlke
Deutsche Spielfilme von dem Anfängen bis 1933, Ein Filmführer
Berlin, 1988

Michael Conway, Dion McGregor and Mark Ricci
The Films of Greta Garbo
Secaucus, New Jersey, 1973

Homer Dickens
The Films of Marlene Dietrich
New York, 1968

Articles on Die freudlose Gasse (The Street of Sorrow)

Roland Mörchen, Die freudlose Gasse, in: Filmdienst, nr. 26, 2009 pp. 38-39

Reviews

Wilhelm Roth, Wien bei Nacht, in: epd Film, nr. 10, 2009 pp. 54 (DVD review)