Destiny

Der müde Tod

1921 · 1h 38m · 7.4

Drama, Fantasy, Thriller

As a young couple stops and rests in a small village inn, the man is abducted by Death and sequestered behind a huge doorless, windowless wall. The woman poisons herself in order to join him and is met by Death, who gives her three opportunities to prove that love is stronger than death, thereby freeing her beloved from his fate.

Fritz Lang

Lil Dagover, Walter Janssen, Bernhard Goetzke, Hans Sternberg, Karl Rückert, Max Adalbert, Wilhelm Diegelmann, Erich Pabst, Karl Platen, Hermann Picha

china, self sacrifice, fiancé, wall, death, silent film, stranger, inn, expressionism, cementery, life after death, death personified, german expressionism