The Joyless Street (1925) On DVD

Actor:           Asta Nielsen, Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Elnar Hanson, Werner Krauss     
Director:      G. W. Pabst
Genre:          Drama
Year:            1925
Studio:         American Pop Classics/Allied V
Length:        60
Released:   January 24, 2012
Rating:         Not Rated (MPAA Rating)
Format:        DVD
Misc:            NTSC, Color, Black & White
Language:  English
Subtitles  :  N/A

DESCRIPTION:

This early silent classic from director G.W. Pabst (who would go on to make the acclaimed "Pandora's Box" and "Diary of A Lost Street"), follows the desperate lives of people inhabiting a single street in bleak, post-World War I Vienna. Highly-controversial and heavily-censored at the time of its release, the Austrian-made film features Asta Nielsen as a desperate woman forced into prostitution to provide for her family. Warner Krauss stars as the street's domineering butcher, while a young Greta Garbo also features in what is said to have been her personal favorite role; it was also her last before coming to America, where far greater fame awaited her.