Open any door in Melchior Alley, and you'll come face to face with naked misery.
In 1921, we follow two women - Marie and Grete - from the same poor Viennese neighborhood, as they try to better the lives of themselves and their families during the period of Austrian postwar hyperinflation.
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G.W. Pabst
Director, Editor
Willy Haas
Screenplay
Hugo Bettauer
Novel
Romain Pinès
Producer
Michail Salkind
Producer
Curt Oertel
Director of Photography
Robert Lach
Director of Photography
Guido Seeber
Director of Photography
Anatole Litvak
Editor
Mark Sorkin
Editor
Otto Erdmann
Production Design
Hans Sohnle
Production Design
