Tragedy of a Street
Die Dirnentragödie, feature film, 1927
DIRECTED BY: Bruno Rahn
CAST:
Asta Nielsen (Auguste),
Hilde Jennings (Clarissa),
Oskar Homolka (Anton),
Werner Pittschau (Felix)
SCRIPT:
Ruth Goetz,
Leo Heller (prema drami Wilhelma Brauna)
PHOTOGRAPHY:
Guido Seeber
Synopsis:
A meeting between Felix, a young man from a bourgeois family, and an older prostitute has fatal consequences for the prostitute and her surroundings. After a serious argument with his parents Felix ends up on the street where he meets Auguste. She feels sorry for him and offers to take him into her apartment, which she shares with a young prostitute Clarisse and her pimp…
b/w, silent, 84 minute