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

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 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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• More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.