Dirnentragödie (1927)

Drama

Before road movies there were street films, a distinct cycle within German silent cinema. The essential ingredient - misalliance between bourgeois and slum dweller - is present here, though somewhat displaced by Asta Nielsen's star persona. She plays an aging hooker who falls for handsome Felix, a student who has rowed with his parents and ventured into the lower depths. Dreaming of a new life, she ejects her pimp and invests her savings in a cake shop. Even without that title, though, you wouldn't bet on a happy ending. Nielsen is a quite restrained sort of diva, and Rahn likewise soft pedals the melodrama, except for the grand finale. He died soon after making this, his contemporaries regretting the masterworks the cinema was thus denied. Well, maybe.

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Runtime: 85 mins Rating: 5.5

Cast

Gerhard Dammann

Oskar Homolka

Anton - Pimp

Otto Kronburger

His Father

Asta Nielsen

Auguste - Old Street Walker

Hermann Picha

Kauzke - Pianist

Hedwig Pauly-Winterstein

His Mother

Hilde Jennings

Clarissa - Young Street Walker

Werner Pittschau

Felix - Student

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Crew

Guido Seeber

Director of Photography

Bruno Rahn

Director

Carl Ludwig Kirmse

Production Design

Ruth Goetz

Screenplay

Leo Heller

Screenplay

Wilhelm Braun

Original Story

Felix Bartsch

Music

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