

“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.
Directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst

Werner Krauss
Josef Geiringer

Jaro Fürth
Hofrat Rumfort

Greta Garbo
Greta Rumfort

Asta Nielsen
Maria Lechner (Mizzi)

Agnes Esterhazy
Regine

Karl Etlinger
Generaldirektor Rosenow

Henry Stuart

Einar Hanson