Director: Joe May
Stars: Albert Steinrück, Else Heller, Gustav Fröhlich
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
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.