Beyond the Street

Beyond the Street (German: Jenseits der Straße) is a 1929 German silent drama film directed by Leo Mittler and starring Lissy Arna, Paul Rehkopf, and Fritz Genschow.

Beyond the Street
Film poster
Directed by	Leo Mittler
Written by	Willy Döll Jan Fethke
Produced by	Dimitri Roschanski
Starring	Lissy Arna Paul Rehkopf Fritz Genschow Sig Arno
Cinematography	Friedl Behn-Grund
Production company	Prometheus-Film
Distributed by	Prometheus-Film
Release date	10 October 1929 (1929-10-10)
Running time	93 minutes
Country	Germany
Languages	Silent German intertitles

The film is in the Weimar 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.^[1] The film was produced by the left-wing Prometheus Film, a German subsidiary of the Soviet company Mezhrabpom-Film. The film is also known by the alternative title Harbor Drift.

Preservation status

On June 1, 2014, the San Francisco Silent Film Festival presented a 35mm print of the film restored by the Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv Berlin.

Cast

• Lissy Arna as Die Dirne / The Prostitute
• Paul Rehkopf as Der Bettler / The Beggar
• Fritz Genschow as Der Arbeitsloser / The Unemployed man
• Sig Arno as Der Hehler / The Receiver
• Friedrich Gnaß as Der Matrose / The Sailor
• Margarete Kupfer as Die Wirtin / The Landlady
• Jean Toulout