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Passion and DesireFilm 8 of 20
Joyless Street
Die freudlose Gasse
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G.W. Pabst, 1925, Sofar-Film, Vienna after the war. Greta Garbo is Greta Rumfort, whose family slides toward the butcher and the brothel on Melchiorgasse; Asta Nielsen takes the darker rooms. Hyperinflation is the weather. Werner Krauss is the butcher who can ration meat as power. Pabst shot it as a street, not a sermon. Garbo left for Hollywood on the back of this and The Saga of Gösta Berling. Surviving prints are shorter than the premiere; censors and recuts thinned Nielsen’s line. The joyless street is an address.
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Wanting under hyperinflation. Garbo's family slides toward the butcher and the brothel on one street, and Nielsen takes the darker rooms. Krauss rations meat as power. Watch the queue at the butcher's door. Desire here is priced by the hour and paid in kind.
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