Beyond the Street
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Directed by | Leo Mittler |
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Cinematography | Friedl Behn-Grund |
Production company | Prometheus-Film |
Distributed by | Prometheus-Film |
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Running time | 93 minutes |
Country | Germany |
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Beyond the Street (German: Jenseits der Straße) is a 1929 German silent drama film directed by Leo Mittler and starring Lissy Arna, Paul Rehkopf, and Fritz Genschow.
The film is in the Weimar tradition of "street films", which examined the lower-depths of society, and has become the film for which Mittler is best known, even though he had only been appointed to make it after another director had to withdraw.[1] The film was produced by the left-wing Prometheus Film, a German subsidiary of the Soviet company Mezhrabpom-Film. The film is also known by the alternative title Harbor Drift.
Preservation status[]
On June 1, 2014, the San Francisco Silent Film Festival presented a 35mm print of the film restored by the Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv Berlin.
Cast[]
- Lissy Arna as Die Dirne / The Prostitute
- Paul Rehkopf as Der Bettler / The Beggar
- Fritz Genschow as Der Arbeitsloser / The Unemployed man
- Sig Arno as Der Hehler / The Receiver
- Friedrich Gnaß as Der Matrose / The Sailor
- Margarete Kupfer as Die Wirtin / The Landlady
- Jean Toulout
References[]
- ^ Prawer p. 89–90
Bibliography[]
- Prawer, Siegbert Salomon (2005). Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910–1933. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-84545-074-8.
External links[]
Categories:
- 1929 films
- German films
- Films of the Weimar Republic
- 1929 drama films
- German silent feature films
- German drama films
- Films directed by Leo Mittler
- Films set in Hamburg
- Social realism in film
- German black-and-white films
- 1920s drama film stubs
- Silent German film stubs