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.
Despite Garbo, it's heavy going -- an official classic that hasn't quite earned the title.
– Dave Kehr,
Chicago Reader,
1 Jan 2000
fresh:
It later came as a major revelation, both when compared with Pabst's later work and in the context of the development of a film narrative able to accommodate a large number of characters.