Joe Mays sensual drama of life in the Berlin underworld is in many ways the perfect summation of German filmmaking in the silent era: a dazzling visual style, a psychological approach to its characters, and the ability to take a simple and essentially melodramatic story and turn it into something more complex and inherently cinematic.
1929
HD
93min
Germany
German
Joe May
Else Heller
Gustav Fröhlich
Betty Amann
Albert Steinrück
Arthur Duarte
Rosa Valetti
Hans Adalbert Schlettow
Paul Hörbiger
Hans Albers
policeman
berlin germany
seduction
robbery
silent film
jewels
weimar germany
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