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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 .
- 6 October 1921 (Berlin)
- Decla-Bioscop AG
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.
- Fritz Lang
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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 ...
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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
Destiny (Der Müde Tod, 1921), along with Fritz Lang’s succeeding effort Siegfried (1924), stands as one of the most essentially Expressionistic German films. The sto ry, part legend, part fairy tale, is primarily a dream-vision of a young woman who is searching for her missing lover.
Destiny ; 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 desperate to reunite with her dead lover.
