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Die freudlose Gasse - 48 (2009) Front Cover Actor Asta Nielsen Greta Garbo von Walther, Hertha Agnes Esterhazy Hanson, Einar u.a. Movie Details Genre Drama Director Georg Wilhelm Papst Writer Willy Haas/Hugo Bettauer Production Goethe Institut Series Filmmuseum Language German/Italian Audience Rating ab 16 Jahren Running Time 297 mins Country Germany Color Black And White Plot Die freudlose Gasse (The Joyless Street), directed Georg Wilhelm Pabst from a script by Willy Haas, based on a novel by Hugo Bettauer, is not only one of the most important films of the Weimar Republic, it is also one of the most spectacular censorship cases of the era. While the film made its director famous, the state institutions of control guaranteed that no one would ever see the film in its original form. The film was considered too much of a provocation. Its story from the inflationary period in Vienna in the years immediately after World War I offered enough dynamite for several muckraking novels: nouveau riches currency and stock market speculators who wallow in Babylonian luxury, homeless and unemployed Lumpenproletariat living in barns, women who sell their souls for a bit of fresh meat at the butcher's, arrogant but impoverished former bureaucrats unaware of their social slide, young social climbers willing to prostitute themselves with high society women, sexual orgies and bordellos, murder out of jealousy, murder out of despair, and, finally, a revolution in the streets. Personal Details Library No. 881 Index 936 Product Details Format DVD Region Any Region Screen Ratio 4:3 Subtitles Deutsch; Englisch Packaging Snap Case Audio Tracks Deutsch Dolby Digital 2.0 Nr of Disks/Tapes 2 Notes DVD 1: Die Freudlose Gasse 1925 - 151' DVD 2: Der Andere Blick 1991 - 111'. Papst wieder sehen 1997 - 21', Outtakes & Intakes 14' Musikbegleitungen von Aljoscha Zimmermann 20seitiges Booklet mit Texten zum Film