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The joyless street
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7 editions published between 1980 and 2009 in English and German and held by 110 libraries worldwide An expressionistic account of economic and moral decay that focuses on the problems of the inhabitants of a street in decadent post World War I Vienna. Garbo plays a professor's daughter whose family security has been shattered by inflation and must now consider working in a brothel to keep her family from starving.
Die schweigende Muse
by Asta Nielsen
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17 editions published between 1945 and 1998 in German and Danish and held by 64 libraries worldwide
Hamlet ein rachedrama
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in German and held by 49 libraries worldwide This Hamlet remains one of the least known partly because the title role is played by a woman and the plot also borrows from Danish legends and a German play. For reasons of state the heiress to the throne has been brought up as a boy, and she has conceived a hopeless passion for Horatio.
Joyless street
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11 editions published between 1925 and 2006 in 4 languages and held by 48 libraries worldwide A drama about the hunger and passion of the people living under the distorted conditions of inflation-ridden, post-World-War-I Vienna.
Asta Nielsen : ihr Leben in Fotodokumenten, Selbstzeugnissen und zeitgenössischen Betrachtungen
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4 editions published between 1981 and 1984 in German and held by 37 libraries worldwide
The Joyless Street
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8 editions published between 1982 and 1995 in 4 languages and held by 28 libraries worldwide A drama about the hunger and passion of the people living under the distorted conditions of the inflation-ridden, postwar Vienna. Recut after release due to censorship problems; restored in 1981 to original length and editing.
Die freudlose gasse The joyless street
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1 edition published in 1990 in English and held by 25 libraries worldwide A drama about the hunger and passion of the people living under the distorted conditions of inflation-ridden, post-World-War-I Vienna.
Asta Nielsen
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1 edition published in 2005 in Danish and held by 21 libraries worldwide Afgrunden: "A young piano teacher, Magda, leaves her fiancé (whose father is a pastor) to follow an itinerant circus performer. The affair soon goes sour, and Magda kills her lover in a violent struggle."-- Peter Cowie.
Den tiende muse / Asta Nielsen
by Asta Nielsen
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4 editions published between 1966 and 1998 in Danish and held by 14 libraries worldwide
Triple feature drama classics. Volume 7
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1 edition published in 2002 in English and held by 14 libraries worldwide The kid: The loveable tramp adopts and raises a little boy reluctantly abandoned by his troubled mother. After many misadventures, illness and heartbreak, mother, child and adoptive father are reunited in this legendary silent classic.
Liebe mit Achtzig : Asta Nielsen, Christian Theede : Briefe
by Asta Nielsen
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3 editions published in 1997 in German and held by 12 libraries worldwide
Asta Nielsen breve 1911-71
by Asta Nielsen
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3 editions published in 1998 in Danish and held by 11 libraries worldwide
Film-photos wie noch nie
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3 editions published between 1929 and 1978 in German and held by 10 libraries worldwide
The Joyless street Die freudlose Gasse
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3 editions published in 1986 in German and held by 8 libraries worldwide A drama about the hunger and passion of the people living under the distorted conditions of inflation-ridden, post-war Vienna.
Wien, die Inflation und das Elend : Essays und Materialien zum Stummfilm Die freudlose Gasse
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1 edition published in 2008 in German and held by 7 libraries worldwide
Hamlet
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1 edition published in 2011 in German and held by 6 libraries worldwide This Hamlet remains one of the least known partly because the title role is played by a woman and the plot also borrows from Danish legends and a German play. For reasons of state the heiress to the throne has been brought up as a boy, and she has conceived a hopeless passion for Horatio.
Asta Nielsen
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2 editions published in 2005 in Multiple languages and Danish and held by 6 libraries worldwide Camille is an actress and ballet dancer in love with Jean, a playwright. But he is love with a married women. The situation becomes yet more embroiled when Paul, a painter decides that he loves Camille.
Die freudlose Gasse = La rue sans joie
by Georg Wilhelm Pabst
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1 edition published in 2009 in German and held by 3 libraries worldwide
Asta Nielsen the talking muse
by Asta Nielsen
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2 editions published in 2003 in Danish and held by 3 libraries worldwide Biographical portrait of the Dutch silent film and stage actress who reached stardom in several German silent films from 1910 to 1932. Reflections on her life and career feature private archives and personal effects of Nielsen, entrusted to her long-time friend Frede Schmidt, as well as private footage from Germany and Denmark.
Hamlet Drama in einem Vorspiel und 6 Akten nach Motiven der von Professor Vining gefundenen Hamletsage
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1 edition published in 2006 in German and held by 3 libraries worldwide more
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Actors Actresses Austria Austria--Vienna Babelsberg International Filmproduktion Bettauer, Hugo,--1872-1925 Biographical films Biography Circus Comedy films Comedy films Criticism, interpretation, etc. Denmark Documentary films Drama Economic history Economics Exhibition catalogs Expressionism Feature films Feature films Fiction films Film adaptations Film and video adaptations Films for the hearing impaired Foreign films German drama Germany Hamlet (Legendary character) History Motion picture actors and actresses Motion picture producers and directors Motion pictures Motion pictures, German Murder Nielsen, Asta,--1881-1972 Nonfiction films Pabst, G. W.--1885-1967 Pictorial works Poverty Princes Prostitutes Prostitution Reconstruction (1914-1939) Records and correspondence Short films Silent films Silent films Social history World War (1914-1918)
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Alternative Names
Nielsen, Asta Sophie Amalie, 1881-1972
Späterer Name Gad, Asta 1881-1972
Languages
German
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Danish (32) English (28) No Linguistic content (4) Russian (2) Hungarian (2) French (1) Spanish (1) Multiple languages (1) Covers
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