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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.

Crime  Drama  Romance  Foreign

Directed by

Joe May

Starring

Albert Steinrück, Else Heller, Gustav Fröhlich