Asphalt

Mar 12, 1929

1h 33m

★ 7.3

Overview

Starring Betty Amann in her most famous leading role, Joe May's Asphalt is a luxuriously produced German Expressionist classic where tragic liaisons and fatal encounters are shaped alongside the constant roar of Berlin traffic.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

UFA

Asphalt Trailers

Cast

Hauptwachtmeister Holk

Albert Steinrück

Mutter Holk

Else Heller

Wachtmeister Albert Holk

Gustav Fröhlich

Else Kramer

Betty Amann

Konsul Langen

Hans Adalbert Schlettow

Erster Dieb

Hans Albers

Geschäftsführerin

Rosa Valetti

Zweiter Dieb

Paul Hörbiger

Arthur Duarte

Trude Lieske

Rudolf Meinhard-Jünger

Karl Platen

John Schuyler, a happily married lawyer, is appointed diplomat and sent to England. Due to an unfortunate accident, his wife and child can not come along with him. On the ship to England, Schuyler meets the notorious Vampire - a relentless gold digger who causes the moral degradation of those she seduces, first fascinating and then draining the very life from her victims.

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0.0

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