Sylvia Torff

It was not just the children who were treated badly by the wealthy Weimar republic. Robert Kramer is released from prison but struggles to adjust to civilian life. His father disowns him, his wife has left him for another man. There is no work. He eventually arrives in a shelter for the homeless, and seeks salvation through Emma, a prostitute.

Dans un quartier de Londres en proie aux guerres de gangs, une rivalité s'installe entre le roi des mendiants et le gangster que sa fille veut épouser.

À Vienne en 1921, dans la rue « Sans Joie » d’un quartier misérable, sévissent une mère maquerelle manipulatrice et un boucher impitoyable alors que famine et misère écrasent les foyers des pauvres gens et la classe moyenne. La prostitution dans les endroits fréquentés par des riches reste la seule solution pour survivre. Une jeune femme dans le besoin se laisse tenter par une entremetteuse. Finalement, l’amour d’un soldat américain la sauvera de la déchéance.

Based on the novel 'Elsker hverandre' by Aage Madelung, the film follows various lives, one of which is Jewish girl Hanne-Liebe, as she grows up, and experiences the pains of living as a Jew in Russia, leading to a revolution.

For Balduin, going out to beer parties with his fellow students and fighting out disputes at the tip of the sword have lost their charms. He wants to find love; but how would he, a penniless student, ever dare looking up to any woman worth of loving? Absorbed in his dreary thoughts and indifferent to the advances of Lyduschka, Balduin is unexpectedly offered a fortune by the mysterious money-lender Scapinelli - but on a strange condition...