Die Freudlose Gasse (Pabst) (2DVD)

Die freudlose Gasse 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. The story from the inflationary period in Vienna in the years immediately after World War I was considered too much of a provocation: 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, sexual orgies, bordellos and murders.

This unique 2DVD edition offers the improved and most complete restored version of the film as well as a lot of additional material including an excellent documentary about the life and work of G.W. Pabst.






DVD 1
Die freudlose Gasse / The Joyless Street, 151'
directed by: Georg Wilhelm Pabst
written by: Willy Haas, based on the novel by Hugo Bettauer
cinematography by: Guido Seeber
score for piano, violin and violoncello by Aljoscha Zimmermann
cast: Asta Nielsen, Greta Garbo, Agnes Esterhazy, Werner Krauß, Karl Etlinger, Valeska Gert
produced by: Sofar-Film-Produktion, Berlin, Germany 1925
score for piano, violin and violoncello by Aljoscha Zimmermann
Booklet with essays by Klaus Volkmer, Werner Sudendorf and Stefan Drössler

DVD 2
Der andere Blick 1991/2009, 111'
Pabst wieder sehen 1997, 21'
Outtakes and Intakes 1925, 14'
Sound document with memories of the assistent director Mark Sorkin 49'
Screenplay drafts, shooting script and documents as ROM features

Edited by: Filmmuseum München, in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut Munich and the Deutsche Kinemathek Berlin

4:3 (PAL) / 1,33:1 / Dolby Digital 2.0 / language: Deutsch / subtitling: Englisch