Joyless Street

Name: Joyless Street
Released: 2025-04-28
Duration: 2 h 35 min
Cast: Greta Garbo, Asta Nielsen, Werner Krauss, Ilka Grüning

FILM IN FOCUS | Led by Dr. Hester Baer (Professor of German and Cinema and Media Studies at UMD). Event registration includes an academic introduction, full-length screening, and post-film discussion, as well as complimentary popcorn and fountain drink. Presented in the Screening Room. Registration capped at 25. Event pricing. | In the aftermath of World War I, Vienna is undergoing a drastic deterioration in its social conditions due to an economic crisis, and the residents living in one slum struggle to survive amid greed and exploitation. Lila Leid (Tamara Geva) is murdered, and hapless Egon (Henry Stuart) is arrested for the crime. Meanwhile, former bureaucrat Rumfort (Jaro Fürth) is ruined financially, so he and his daughter, Greta (Greta Garbo), are forced to live off the money Greta earns working at a brothel.PT2H35MNR2025-04-28

Greta Garbo

Asta Nielsen

Werner Krauss

Ilka Grüning

G. W. Pabst

Joyless Street"Joyless Street"

Showtimes

April 28, 7:00 pm