Destiny

Destiny

98 mins | Drama, Thriller, Romance, Fantasy | Oct. 6, 1921

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, windowless wall. The woman finds a mystic entrance and is met by Death, who tells her three separate stories set in exotic locales, all involving circumstances similar to hers.

Destiny

98 mins | Drama, Thriller, Romance, Fantasy | Oct. 6, 1921

Destiny
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, windowless wall. The woman finds a mystic entrance and is met by Death, who tells her three separate stories set in exotic locales, all involving circumstances similar to hers.
IMDb rating 7.6
Producers Decla-Bioscop AG
Original title Der müde Tod
Directors Fritz Lang
Writers Thea von Harbou, Fritz Lang

Cast

Lil Dagover

as Young Woman / Zobeide / Mona Fiametta / Tiao Tsien

Walter Janssen

as Young Man / Frank / Gianfrancesco / Liang

Bernhard Goetzke

as Death / El Mot / Archer

Hans Sternberg

as Mayor

Karl Rückert

as Reverend

Max Adalbert

as Notary / Chancellor

Wilhelm Diegelmann

as Doctor

Erich Pabst

as Teacher

Karl Platen

as Pharmacist

Hermann Picha

as Taylor

Paul Rehkopf

as Gravedigger

Max Pfeiffer

as Night Watchman

Georg John

as Beggar

Lydia Potechina

as Landlady

Grete Berger

as Mother

Rudolf Klein-Rogge

as Dervish / Girolamo

Eduard von Winterstein

as Caliph (uncredited)

Lothar Müthel

as Confidant (uncredited)

Edgar Pauly

as Girolamo's Friend (uncredited)

Louis Brody

as Moor (uncredited)

Károly Huszár

as Emperor of China

Paul Biensfeldt

as A Hi (uncredited)

Neumann-Schüler

as Executioner (uncredited)

Ernst Rückert

as Priest (uncredited)

Hermann Vallentin

as (uncredited)

Erika Unruh

as Ayesha