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Destiny (German: Der müde Tod: ein deutsches Volkslied in sechs Versen (Weary Death: A German Folk Story in Six Verses); originally released in the United States as Behind the Wall) 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 ...
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
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Sep 21, 2017 · Destiny (German: Der müde Tod: ein deutsches volkslied in 6 versen (Weary Death: A German Folk Story in Six Verses); originally released in the US as Behind the Wall) is a 1921 silent German...
- 99 min
- 56.5K
- Storia del Cinema
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 · Destiny is a parable fantasy: a young woman (Lil Dagover) is horrified when her fiance (Walter Janssen) is led away by the implacable figure of Death (Bernhard Goetzke) who has recently...
- 1 min
- 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.
Jun 5, 2017 · Shot in the aftermath of the Great War, in a land where death was far from a stranger, ‘Der Müde Tod’ is weighty with a sense of portent and grim fate. But Lang’s direction is never heavy ...
