A richly detailed, honest and cheerful view of a day in the life of a Hamburg prostitute from the St. Pauli Ballroom. Else awakens one morning to the sound of a hoodlum sailor jumping through her window to evade the police. Their love affair lasts one day, until he is caught, and the next morning she once again awakens to the sounds of the wharf and the longshoremen's song. Razzia in St. Pauli is considered the masterwork of director Werner Hochbaum, whose blacklisting by the Nazis cut short an important career, and who remained relatively unknown until the 1970s when archival retrospectives in Europe and the U.S. reintroduced his work. David Robinson writes of Razzia in St. Pauli, “Its fascination stems from Hochbaum's unusual technical virtuosity. Mood changes occur so subtly and with such definition that it inspires musical parallels: the close air and quiet of Else's bedroom, the agitation of the nightlife, the determined activity of the police cars on the late-night streets, the escalating chaos of the raid....” (translated by Deborah Griggs). Razzia in St. Pauli premiered in May 1932 and was blacklisted by the national film board in December 1933 for its “socialist perspective, something that is clearly evident in the closing song.” (The “Song of the Longshoreman” closes with the lines, “Some live like this but others live differently.”) Note: Print is in German with no English subtitles; a written English synopsis will be provided.