La Transversale : Time Travelling

Destinity

Der Müde Tod

Fritz Lang

1921
Germany
1h40
Fiction
Col.
INT. FR

When a woman's fiancé disappears, Death gives her three chances to save him from his fate.

"Some place, some time” - a nameless village where a young man and woman fall in love and plan to marry, and where a mysterious stranger plants a garden beside the graveyard and surrounds it with an insurmountable wall bearing neither doors nor windows. At the Golden Unicorn Inn, the two lovers drink from a bridal cup while the stranger looks on. The young woman is briefly distracted and the stranger spirits her paramour away. As night falls, she arrives at the vast stone wall and sees a procession of spirits passing through it. Only then does she know that the stranger is Death, and realises what has become of her lover.
 

Cast
Bernhard Goetzke, Lil Dagover, Walter Janssen, Max Adalbert
Screenplay
Fritz Lang, Thea von Harbou
Photography
Fritz Arnö Wagner, Erich Nitzschmann, Herrmann Saalfrank
Music
Giuseppe Becce, Karl-Ernst Sasse, Peter Schirmann
Art direction
Walter Röhrig, Hermann Warm, Robert Herlth
Editing
Fritz Lang
Production
Decla-Bioscop AG

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