Destiny

Destiny

★ 7.4IMDb Score
Released:1921-10-06
Duration:98 min
Country:Germany
Director:Fritz Lang
Actors:Lil Dagover, Walter Janssen, Bernhard Goetzke, Hans Sternberg, Karl Rückert
Production:Decla-Bioscop

Overview:

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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