Street Without Joy
A Feature film of
Produced by
Production year1938
French release13/04/1938
Runtime1 h 27 min
Synopsis
Based on a story by Hugo Bettauer, La Rue Sans Joie is a remake of German director G.W. Pabst's silent classic The Joyless Street. Dita Parlo essays the old Greta Garbo role as Jean de Romer, daughter of an impoverished Viennese professor. To keep food on her family's table, Jean is willing to make any sacrifice, which leads inexorably to a life of prostitution. The subsequent courtroom finale, wherein Jean is on trial for the murder of slimy gigolo Louis Stinno (Valery Inkijoff), is the film's dramatic highlight.
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (32)
Production and distribution (3)
- Executive Producer : Productions André Hugon
- Film exports/foreign sales : LCJ Editions & Productions
- French distribution : Les Films Vog
Full credits (7)
- Dialogue Writer : Georges Fagot
- Directors of Photography : Marc Bujard, Tahar Hannache, Michel Rocca
- Music Composers : Georges Auric, Vincent Scotto
- Sound Recordist : Jacques Hawadier
- Author of original work : Hugo Bettauer
- Producer : André Hugon
- Production Designer : Emile Duquesne
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Themes : Prostitution
- Production language : French
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
