The Plague of Florence (1919)

Original title

Die Pest in Florenz

Directed by

Otto Rippert

Genre

drama film, silent film, horror film, historical film

Country

Germany

Runtime

1h 13m

Rated

12

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 12 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

A tragic romance set in Florence in 1348. The story follows a young seductress whose actions trigger the outbreak of the Black Death.

tragicromanticgothicatmosphericdarktensesombermelodramatic

What happens

The Plague in Florence (German: Pest in Florenz) is a 1919 German silent historical film directed by Otto Rippert for Eric Pommer's Deutsche Eclair (Decla) production company. The screenplay was written by Fritz Lang. It stars Marga von Kierska, Theodor Becker, Karl Bernhard and Julietta Brandt. The film is a tragic romance set in Florence in 1348, just before the first outbreaks in Italy of the Black Death, which then spread out across the entire continent. Lang's screenplay was based on the Edgar Allan Poe story "The Masque of the Red Death", but he heightened the story's sexual tension by making the plague the result of the actions of a young seductress. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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