Above: Part one (of nine) of Die Strasse. Direct YouTube link here.

... the days of the Student of Prague, and Wiene and Werner Krauss and Karl Grüne, the Ufa days when a defeated Germany was winning the respect of the cultured world by the pictures she was making. – UTV, 24.

Die Strasse was directed by Karl Grüne in 1923. The silent film features few intertitles, instead relating its two intertwining plotlines visually. One plotline covers a middle-aged man's escape from, his longing for, and his eventual return to domesticity.

Below: The chaotic street watches passers-by, much in the same manner as Lowry's 'espiders'.