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In post-WWI Vienna, Greta (Greta Garbo), her kid sister, and retired dad try to make it through tough times.In post-WWI Vienna, Greta (Greta Garbo), her kid sister, and retired dad try to make it through tough times.In post-WWI Vienna, Greta (Greta Garbo), her kid sister, and retired dad try to make it through tough times.
Ágnes Eszterházy
- Regina Rosenow
- (as Agnes Esterhazy)
Renate Brausewetter
- Frau
- (uncredited)
Mario Cusmich
- Oberst Irving
- (uncredited)
Maria Forescu
- Frau
- (uncredited)
Robert Garrison
- Don Alfonso Canez
- (uncredited)
Valeska Gert
- Frau Greifer
- (uncredited)
Tamara Geva
- Lia Leid
- (uncredited)
Max Kohlhase
- Marias Vater
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- Hugo Bettauer
- Willy Haas(uncredited)
- F.H. Lyon
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- TriviaThe dark-haired woman waiting in the butcher shop line who is often mistaken for Marlene Dietrich is actually Hertha von Walther. She had a much larger role in the original uncut version of the film. She can also be seen as the lab assistant in Secrets of a Soul (1926) with Werner Krauss.
- Alternate versionsIn 1997 the film was digitally remastered by the Filmmuseum Munich. It also got a new music score.
- ConnectionsEdited into Film ist a Girl & a Gun (2009)
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Interesting silent drama...
1st watched 2/6/2007,61 minute edited version - 6 out of 10 (Dir-G.W. Pabst): Interesting silent drama that shows the major differences between upper-echelon and depression Austria after World War I and portrays it very well for the most part. The movie turns into a romantic piece in the last quarter which negates it's effectiveness but still shows us more than we normally see from this type of film. Greta Garbo plays in what is labeled as her first starring role in the version I watched, and does an admiral job as the daughter of a retired civil servant who's always trying to do the right thing to help her family's financial situation but it never seems to work out. Her performance is all about her facial and body gestures which, of course, is a must for a silent film and she is excellent with this. The hero in the film is an American do-gooder who helps the family survive by moving into their home and paying rent, but the authorities would prefer that he mingle with the uppity crowd and soon removes him from the setting. Everything works out in the end like a good Hollywood movie, which in my opinion takes away from the effectiveness of what could have been a more impressive piece of movie-making. ;watched app. 94 minutes version on 11/29/2015;added scenes and totally different non-romantic somewhat incomplete darker ending lend to a deeper film overall
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- dwpollar
- Feb 7, 2007
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- The Street of Sorrow
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- Runtime2 hours 5 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1
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