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

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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