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Der müde Tod
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Director:
Fritz Lang
Writers:
Fritz Lang
Thea von Harbou
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Release Date:
30 January 1922 (Finland) See more »
Genre:
Fantasy | Thriller See more »
Plot:
As a young couple stops and rests in a small village inn, the man is abducted by Death and is sequestered behind a huge doorless... See more » | Add synopsis »
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Cast

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Lil Dagover ... Young Woman / Das junge Mädchen / Zobeide / Monna Fiametta / Tiao Tsien
Walter Janssen ... Young Man / Der junge Mann / Franke / Giovan Francesco / Liang
Bernhard Goetzke ... Death / Der Tod / El Mot / Bogner / Archer
Hans Sternberg ... Mayor / Bürgermeister
Karl Rückert ... Reverend (as Carl Rückert)
Max Adalbert ... Notary / Notar / Schatzmeister / Chancellor
Wilhelm Diegelmann ... Doctor / Arzt
Erich Pabst ... Teacher / Lehrer
Karl Platen ... Pharmacist / Apotheker
Hermann Picha ... Taylor / Schneider
Paul Rehkopf ... Grave-Digger / Küster
Max Pfeiffer
Georg John ... Beggar / Bettler
Lydia Potechina ... Landlady / Wirtin
Grete Berger ... Mother / Mutter
Eduard von Winterstein ... Kalif
Erika Unruh ... Ayesha
Rudolf Klein-Rogge ... Derwisch / Girolamo
Lothar Müthel ... Messenger / Vertrauter
Edgar Pauly ... Girolamo's Friend
Lewis Brody ... Moor / Mohr
Charles Puffy ... China's Emperor / Kaiser (as Karl Huszar)
Paul Biensfeldt ... A Hi
Paul Neumann ... Executioner / Henker
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Hellmuth Hiemstra ... Vertraute des Girolamo
Edgar Klitzsch ... Arzt
Loisia Lehnert ... Mutter
Neumann-Schüler ... Henker
Lina Paulsen ... Amme
Ernst Rückert ... Pfarrer
Hermann Vallentin
Marie Wismar ... Alte Frau
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Directed by
Fritz Lang 
 
Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
Fritz Lang 
Thea von Harbou 

Produced by
Erich Pommer .... producer
 
Original Music by
Giuseppe Becce 
Karl-Ernst Sasse  (as Karl-Ernst Sasse Sr.)
Peter Schirmann 
 
Cinematography by
Bruno Mondi 
Erich Nitzschmann 
Herrmann Saalfrank 
Bruno Timm 
Fritz Arno Wagner 
 
Film Editing by
Fritz Lang 
 
Art Direction by
Robert Herlth 
Walter Röhrig 
Hermann Warm 
 
Costume Design by
Heinrich Umlauff 
 
Camera and Electrical Department
Robert Hegerwald .... lighting technician
Ernst Kunstmann .... camera operator
 
Crew believed to be complete


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Additional Details

Also Known As:
"Der müde Tod" - Germany (original title)
"Between Two Worlds" - USA (alternative title)
"Between Worlds" - USA (alternative title)
"Beyond the Wall" - USA (alternative title)
"The Weary Death" - USA (literal English title)
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Runtime:
105 min (16 fps) | USA:114 min
Country:
Germany
Language:
German
Color:
Black and White | Color (tinted)
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 See more »
Sound Mix:
Silent
Certification:
Germany:12
Company:
Decla-Bioscop AGSee more »

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Trivia:
The film that first sparked surrealist director Luis Buñuel's interest in film.See more »
Quotes:
Junge Maedchen:You dread, awful cactus, you!See more »
Movie Connections:
Featured in Encounter with Fritz Lang (1964)See more »

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9 out of 9 people found the following review useful.
Fables told in shadows, 21 February 2001
Author: austex23 from Austin, Texas

Wonderfully haunting in its images, this early Lang film has recently been reissued on DVD under the title Destiny. A title I have heard about for years, it is a pleasure to see it in a finely restored format that does justice to its beauty. The film is made up of four stories, a framing sequence and three historical vignettes, related by the central theme of a woman trying to defy Death to save her lover. While the plots are simple, the telling is astonishing in vision and execution and each of the four stories has a distinctive, entertaining tone -- the brooding expressionistic framing piece, a tale of Arabian adventure, a Renaissance romance, and a comic Chinese fantasy. I found the Chinese segment especially entertaining and some of the images -- such as the old magician transformed into a cactus -- are incredibly surreal and surprising 80 years after they were filmed. Interesting as the film that made Lang famous and very entertaining in its own right, I would recommend this film to anyone who likes cinema of the imagination.

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