Weimar Cinema Series
Die Freudlose Gasse (1925)
Joyless Streets
G.W. Pabst, 151 minutes
October 17, 2017
Tuesday
7:00 – 9:00 pm
010 East Pyne
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Film still from “Joyless Streets”
This highly controversial (and much-censored) adaptation of a novel by Hugo Bettauer, one of the first filmic explorations of Neue Sachlichkeit [New Objectivity], is presented here in a recently restored and tinted print with German intertitles, English subtitles and a contemporary soundtrack by Aljoscha Zimmermann.
Film screening followed by discussion.
Fall 2017 Film Series in conjunction with GER308 / ECS307 “Regimes of Spectacle in Weimar Cinema”
