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Destiny is a Allemand film of genre Drama directed by Fritz Lang released in USA on 6 july 1924 with Lil Dagover
Destiny (1921)
Der Müde Tod
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 6 july 1924
Length 1h40
Directed by Fritz Lang
OriginGerman
Themes Time travel films
Rating75%
Destiny (German: Der müde Tod, "Weary Death"; originally released in the US as Behind the Wall) is a 1921 silent film directed in Germany by Fritz Lang. The film, rich in special effects, is structured as a frame tale with three stories within the story.
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In the Expressionistic frame story, in which human lives are each represented by a candle, Death grants a woman three chances to save her lover, if love can triumph over death. The three stories within the story each occur in a setting that is nominally historic, but really in the realm of fantasy: an adventure tale with a Persian setting out of the Arabian Nights, a Renaissance Venetian romance, and a largely comic story set in China.Actors
Lil Dagover
(Young Woman / Zobeide / Mona Fiametta / Tiao Tsien)
Walter Janssen
(Young Man / Frank / Gianfrancesco / Liang)
Bernhard Goetzke
(Death / El Mot / Archer)
Rudolf Klein-Rogge
(Dervish / Girolamo)
Eduard von Winterstein
(Caliph (uncredited))
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