''Beyond the Street'' () is a 1929

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silent

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directed by

Leo Mittler Leo Mittler (18 December 1893 – 16 May 1958) was an Austrian playwright, screenwriter and film director. Mittler was born in Vienna to a Jewish family. He attended the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, University of Music and Per ...

and starring

Lissy Arna Lissy Arna (born Elisabeth Arndt, 20 December 1900 – 22 January 1964) was a German film actress. She appeared in 63 films between 1918 and 1962. She starred in the 1931 film '' The Squeaker'', which was directed by Martin Frič and Karel L ...

Paul Rehkopf Paul Anton Heinrich Rehkopf (21 May 1872 – 29 June 1949) was a German actor. He was born in Braunschweig, Germany and died in Berlin, Germany Selected filmography * '' Diary of a Lost Woman'' (1918) * '' Film Kathi'' (1918) * '' Lorenzo Burgh ...

, and

Fritz Genschow Fritz Genschow (15 May 1905 – 21 June 1977) was a German actor, film director and screenwriter. Selected filmography * ''Hands Up, Eddy Polo'' (1929) - Russenphilipp * ''Beyond the Street'' (1929) - Der Arbeitsloser / The Unemployed man * ' ...

. The film is in the

Weimar Weimar is a city in the state (Germany), German state of Thuringia, in Central Germany (cultural area), Central Germany between Erfurt to the west and Jena to the east, southwest of Leipzig, north of Nuremberg and west of Dresden. Together w ...

tradition of "street films", which examined the lower-depths of society, and has become the film for which Mittler is best known, even though he had only been appointed to make it after another director had to withdraw.Prawer p. 89–90 The film was produced by the left-wing Prometheus Film, a German subsidiary of the

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company Mezhrabpom-Film. The film is also known by the

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''Harbor Drift''.

Preservation status

On June 1, 2014, the

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presented a 35mm print of the film restored by the Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv Berlin.

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External links

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''Beyond the Street'' at SilentEra
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