The Joyless Street (AB Continental Film, 1925). Swedish One Sheet (27.5" X 39.5"). Original Title: Die Freudlose Gasse....

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The Joyless Street (AB Continental Film, 1925). Swedish One Sheet (27.5" X 39.5"). Original Title: Die Freudlose Gasse.
Originally titled Die Freudlose Grasse, this exquisite film by director G. W. Pabst is set in poverty-stricken Vienna shortly after World War I. Filmed in an expressionistic and highly symbolic style, the film is particularly notable today for an appearance by a young Greta Garbo in her last European film before emigrating to America to appear in Torrent (1926). Street lamps illuminate the dark cobblestone streets, casting a glimmer of hope in the struggling post-war Austrian city. The poster has small edge tears and light wrinkling, but is otherwise very presentable. Folded, Very Fine+.

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