THE STREET - 1927 - MAX SCHRECK - SILENT - RARE DVD
$ 14.00
Director: Karl Grune
Cast: Anton Edthofer ... The Pimp Aud Egede-Nissen ... The Prostitute Leonhard Haskel ... The Provincial Lucie Höflich ... The Wife Eugen Klöpfer ... The Man Max Schreck ... The Blind
The USA release of Karl Grune's expressionistic film Die Straße (1923)
"There comes a moment in the life of nearly every man, be he good or bad, when appalled by the monotony and drabness of his daily life, his soul yearns for something different - he longs for the unknown, for the glamour and excitement he imagines to be the lot of other man; the man in the street."
A middle aged husband is lured from his drab home life and dutiful wife out to the promised glamour and adventures of the lively streets. He finds a wild and chaotic nightscape full of lurid thrills. However he is targeted by the nefarious nightlife when a prostitute and her pimp plan to rob him.
Cast: Anton Edthofer ... The Pimp Aud Egede-Nissen ... The Prostitute Leonhard Haskel ... The Provincial Lucie Höflich ... The Wife Eugen Klöpfer ... The Man Max Schreck ... The Blind
The USA release of Karl Grune's expressionistic film Die Straße (1923)
"There comes a moment in the life of nearly every man, be he good or bad, when appalled by the monotony and drabness of his daily life, his soul yearns for something different - he longs for the unknown, for the glamour and excitement he imagines to be the lot of other man; the man in the street."
A middle aged husband is lured from his drab home life and dutiful wife out to the promised glamour and adventures of the lively streets. He finds a wild and chaotic nightscape full of lurid thrills. However he is targeted by the nefarious nightlife when a prostitute and her pimp plan to rob him.
