Patience (1920)

Original title

Die Karten des Todes

Directed by

Felix Basch

Country

Germany

Runtime

50 min

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A German silent film from 1920 where a death card game sets off a chain of mysterious events. The story follows characters caught in a tense struggle with fate and deception.

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What happens

Patience or The Cards of Death (German: Die Karten des Todes) is a 1920 German silent film directed by Felix Basch and Paul Leni and starring Conrad Veidt, Adele Sandrock, and Wilhelm Diegelmann. It was produced by Gloria-Film, a company later taken over by UFA. The film's sets were designed by Paul Leni. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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