Motion Picture- Destiny (Der müde Tod)

Label: Kino Lorber

Reissued 2016, Originally released 1921

FOREIGN / MYSTERY / FANTASY -  Bernard Gatze, Lil Dagover. A girl comes face to face with the angel of death in Fritz Lang's acclaimed allegorical tale of love and death. Silent with original organ score. 1921/b&w/122 min/NR/fullscreen. 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. In each story, a woman, trying to save her lover from his ultimate tragic fate, fails. The young lady realizes the meaning of the tales and takes the only step she can to reunite herself with her lover...