Destiny (1921)
- Original title
- Der müde Tod
- Directed by
- Fritz Lang
- Genre
- drama film, fantasy film, silent film, anthology film
- Country
- German Reich, Germany
- Runtime
- 1h 45m
- Rated
- 0
- Rating
- 7.4 of 10 from 176 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.
How it feels
A woman tries to bring her dead lover back to life. She is shown three doomed love stories from different times and places.
melancholicdreamlikevisually lushslow-burnsomberromanticfatalistic
What happens
Destiny (German: Der müde Tod: ein deutsches Volkslied in sechs Versen, lit. 'The Weary Death: A German Folksong in Six Verses') is a 1921 silent German Expressionist fantasy romance film directed by Fritz Lang and inspired by the Indian folktale of Savitri. The plot follows a woman desperate to reunite with her dead lover. It is also an anthology film that follows three other tragic romances set in the Middle East, in Venice, and in China. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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