Valeska Gert was a German dancer, pantomime, cabaret artist, actress and pioneering performance artist.
Valeska Gert, Munich, 1918
Grave of Honour by the city of Berlin
Joyless Street, also titled The Street of Sorrow or The Joyless Street, is a 1925 German silent film directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst starring Greta Garbo, Asta Nielsen and Werner Krauss. It is based on a novel by Hugo Bettauer and widely considered an expression of New Objectivity in film.
Video cover for short US version