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Jun 8, 2017 · Destiny review – Fritz Lang's amazing dream of longing and fear. Lang’s mysterious silent melodrama from 1921 is a parable about love and death that captivates with its ambition, enigma and...
Jun 27, 2018 · For anyone familiar with German director Fritz Lang through his most iconic works, Metropolis (1927) or M (1931), his 1921 film Der müde Tod (Destiny) may come as a bit of a surprise. Though it’s as thematically rich as those works and certainly as technically innovative, the delight of Destiny is in how unexpectedly playful it is, resulting ...
Jun 13, 2001 · Destiny was Fritz Lang’s first international success and it had a crucial influence on many major filmmakers. In his autobiography Luis Buñuel states, When I saw Destiny, I suddenly knew that I wanted too make movies. It wasn’t the three stories themselves that moved me so much, but the main episode – the arrival of the man in the black ...
Jun 5, 2017 · Tom Huddleston. Monday 5 June 2017. Release Details. Rated: PG. Release date: Friday 9 June 2017. Duration: 114 mins. Cast and crew. Director: Fritz Lang. Screenwriter: Fritz Lang, Thea von...
Destiny (1921) - Fritz Lang | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie. Directed by Fritz Lang. Genres - Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Romance, Science Fiction | Sub-Genres - Romantic Fantasy, Melodrama | Release Date - Oct 6, 1921 (USA - Unknown) | Run Time - 120 min. | Countries - Germany | MPAA Rating - NR. AllMovie Rating.
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.
One of the “weirder” entries in the filmography of Fritz Lang, this neo-surrealist horror/drama tells the story of a woman as she encounters the physical manifestation of death, a black cloaked-man (Bernhard Goetzke), after he steals away her main squeeze (Walter Janssen).
