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Destiny

Original title: Der müde Tod

Love is Stronger Than Death

1921 · 1h 38m

Directed by Fritz Lang

7.4

TMDB audience score
180 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

As a young couple stops and rests in a small village inn, the man is abducted by Death and sequestered behind a huge doorless, windowless wall. The woman poisons herself in order to join him and is met by Death, who gives her three opportunities to prove that love is stronger than death, thereby freeing her beloved from his fate.

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Cast

  • Lil Dagover
    Young Woman / Zobeide / Mona Fiametta / Tiao Tsien

  • Walter Janssen
    Young Man / Frank / Gianfrancesco / Liang

  • Bernhard Goetzke
    Death / El Mot / Archer

  • Hans Sternberg
    Mayor

  • Karl Rückert
    Reverend

  • Max Adalbert
    Notary / Chancellor

  • Wilhelm Diegelmann
    Doctor

  • Erich Pabst
    Teacher

  • Karl Platen
    Pharmacist

  • Hermann Picha
    Taylor

  • Paul Rehkopf
    Gravedigger

  • Max Pfeiffer
    Night Watchman

  • Georg John
    Beggar

  • Lydia Potechina
    Landlady

  • Grete Berger
    Mother

  • Rudolf Klein-Rogge
    Dervish / Girolamo

  • Eduard von Winterstein
    Caliph (uncredited)

  • Lothar Müthel
    Confidant (uncredited)