Lucile Höflich who played the young girl (uncredited) would never act again. She died tragically 20 years later in 1943 at the age of 25.
When the film had its delayed US premiere in 1927 at New York City's Fifth Avenue Playhouse, it was accompanied by a revival of the Chaplin short, The Immigrant.
Anton Edthofer said this was his personal favourite film, there is a common misconception that it is Pygmalion (1935)
This is considered to be the inaugural example of Straßenfilm ("Street Film") a sub-genre of films that flourished in Germany during the Weimar period and dealt with such subjects as urban blight, poverty, political corruption, and the underworld. Like this film, other Street Films were noted for mixing gritty realism with an expressionist approach to lighting, set design, acting, story structure, cinematography and editing. This genre would disappear with the rise of the Third Reich. The Street Film is credited with laying the groundwork for Film Noir in the United States, Italian Neorealism, and the cinema of the French New Wave.
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