Joyless Street

Die freudlose Gasse

Also known as La via senza gioia, L'ammaliatrice, Bajo la máscara del placer, The Street of Sorrow, The Joyless Street

“Open any door in Melchior Alley, and you'll come face to face with naked misery.”

In 1921, we follow two women - Marie and Grete - from the same poor Viennese neighborhood, as they try to better the lives of themselves and their families during the period of Austrian postwar hyperinflation.