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.
Directed byJoe May
Written byJoe May (screenplay), Hans Sz�kely (screenplay), Rolf E. Vanloo (screenplay)
CountryGermany
Runtime90 min
On screen
Albert Steinr�ck
Else Heller
Gustav Fr�hlich
Betty Amann