Tag Archives: Albert Steinrück

A young woman reluctantly decides to compromise her values in order to save her family from bankruptcy and disgrace. Read More »

Joe May’s 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.
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