---
title: 'Joyless Street (1925)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Georg Wilhelm Pabst'
released: '1925-09-28'
runtime_minutes: 148
genres:
  - 'Drama'
countries:
  - 'Germany'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/joyless-street-1925'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0015842/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Joyless Street (1925)

1925 · 148 min · Drama · Germany

Original title: Die freudlose Gasse

## Synopsis

Joyless Street, also titled The Street of Sorrow or The Joyless Street, is a 1925 German silent film directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst starring Greta Garbo, Asta Nielsen and Werner Krauss. It is based on a novel by Hugo Bettauer and widely considered an expression of New Objectivity in film.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Georg Wilhelm Pabst](https://cinepixo.com/people/georg-wilhelm-pabst)
- **Screenplay:** [Willy Haas](https://cinepixo.com/people/willy-haas)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Max Deutsch](https://cinepixo.com/people/max-deutsch)
- **Producer:** [Michael Salkind](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-salkind)
- **Director of Photography:** [Guido Seeber](https://cinepixo.com/people/guido-seeber), [Curt Oertel](https://cinepixo.com/people/curt-oertel), [Robert Lach](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-lach)
- **Editor:** [Mark Sorkin](https://cinepixo.com/people/mark-sorkin)

## Cast

- [Marlene Dietrich](https://cinepixo.com/people/marlene-dietrich)
- [Agnes Esterhazy](https://cinepixo.com/people/agnes-esterhazy)
- [Greta Garbo](https://cinepixo.com/people/greta-garbo)
- [Werner Krauss](https://cinepixo.com/people/werner-krauss)
- [Ilka Grüning](https://cinepixo.com/people/ilka-gruning)
- [Robert Garrison](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-garrison)
- [Valeska Gert](https://cinepixo.com/people/valeska-gert)
- [Gregori Chmara](https://cinepixo.com/people/gregori-chmara)
- [Sylvia Torff](https://cinepixo.com/people/sylvia-torff)
- [Asta Nielsen](https://cinepixo.com/people/asta-nielsen)
- [Henry Stuart](https://cinepixo.com/people/henry-stuart)
- [Hertha von Walther](https://cinepixo.com/people/hertha-von-walther)
- [Karl Etlinger](https://cinepixo.com/people/karl-etlinger)
- [Loni Nest](https://cinepixo.com/people/loni-nest)
- [Otto Reinwald](https://cinepixo.com/people/otto-reinwald)

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