Asphalt

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1930-05-03

Languages:

German

Countries:

Germany

Runtime:

90 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.6 (859 Reviews)

Director:

Joe May

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Albert Steinrèck Else Heller Gustav Frèhlich Betty Amann

Writer:

Joe May (screenplay)

Hans Szèkely (screenplay)

Rolf E. Vanloo (screenplay)

Fullplot:

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.

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