Asphalt

The last Großfilm released by Germany’s Ufa studio and the silent-era swan song of director Joe May, Asphalt dazzled with its virtuoso recreation of a busy Berlin street. The shoot required so much power to light that parts of the actual city had to go dark during production. Moviemaking magic aside, at its heart, it is the story of a man drawn to the wrong woman who finds out too late he’s misjudged her.