Lil Dagover
Young Woman/Das junge Mädchen/Zobeide/Monna Fiametta/Tiao Tsien
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The film follows a woman desperate to reunite with her dead lover. It also follows three other tragic romances, set in a Middle Eastern city; in Venice, Italy; and in the Chinese Empire. The film is also known as Between Two Worlds .
Destiny: Directed by Fritz Lang. With Bernhard Goetzke, Lil Dagover, Walter Janssen, Hans Sternberg. When a woman's fiancé disappears, Death gives her three chances to save him from his fate.
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- Drama, Fantasy, Horror
- Fritz Lang
- 1922-01-30
Jun 27, 2018 · Subtitled ‘A German Folk Story in Six Verses’, Destiny (the original title of which literally translates to ‘The Tired Death’) is a kind of portmanteau film, held together by a central narrative wherein a grieving young woman (Lil Dagover) competes with an unusually sympathetic Death (Bernhard Goetzke) for the life of her recently ...
- Daniel Lammin
Jun 8, 2017 · Peter Bradshaw. Thu 8 Jun 2017 01.00 EDT. T he only response to this 1921 silent movie by Fritz Lang, now restored and rereleased, is a kind of amazement – at its ambition, its enigma, its...
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- Peter Bradshaw
Fritz Lang’s Destiny is an expressionistic romantic-fantasy that centers on a young 19th-century woman as she challenges “Death” in the hope of bringing back her prematurely taken love. What follows are three moral parables - set in Persia, exotic Venice and imperial China - each dealing with ill-fated love.
Destiny is a 1921 silent German Expressionist fantasy romance film directed by Fritz Lang and inspired by the Indian folktale of Savitri. The film follows a woman desperate to reunite with her dead lover. It also follows three other tragic romances, set in a Middle Eastern city; in Venice, Italy; and in the Chinese Empire.
