Der müde Tod (1921)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.8/10   

Director:

Fritz Lang

Escritores:

Fritz Lang (writer)
Thea von Harbou (writer)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

30 enero 1922 (Finland)

Género:

Fantasía

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...

Plot Keywords:

Death | Expressionist | Public Domain | Expressionism

Comentarios de los usuarios:

A masterpiece of silent cinema

Reparto

Lil Dagover	...	Young Woman / Der junge Maedchen / 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 / Buergermeister
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 / Kuester
Max Pfeiffer
Georg John	...	Beggar / Bettler
Lydia Potechina	...	Landlady / Wirtin
Grete Berger	...	Mother / Mutter

También conocida como:

Between Two Worlds (USA)
Between Worlds (USA)
Beyond the Wall
Destiny (UK)
The Three Lights (UK)
The Weary Death (USA) (literal English title)
Las tres luces (Spain) [es]

Duración:

105 min (16 fps) | USA:114 min

País:

Alemania

Idioma:

Alemán

Color:

Negro y Blanco | Color (tinted)

Relación de Aspecto:

1.33 : 1

Sonido:

Silent

Clasificación:

Germany:12

Compañía:

Decla-Bioscop AG

Trivialidades:

Alfred Hitchcock's favorite film.

Citas:

Junge Maedchen: You dread, awful cactus, you!

Conexiones de Película:

Apareció en Begegnung mit Fritz Lang (1963)

A masterpiece of silent cinema

Directed by Fritz Lang, best known for his masterpiece "M", "Der Mude Tod" stands as probably his best early work. A silent classic, it tells the story of a young couple in a small German village and their encounter with the personification of death in a form of mysterious stranger that appears in a tavern and sits to their table indicating that the time is up for the young husband. After the death of her beloved the young woman is so desperate that she finally manages to enter the kingdom of dead and stand face to face with personification of Death himself (a major influence on Ingmar Bergman's Death figure in the Seventh Seal later) and ask him to give her beloved back to her. The Death finally yields to her persistence and agrees to deliver back the life of her husband, but only if she manages to find any person that would give up his life in exchange. She desperatly tries to convince various people to give up, beginning from a very old man and coming as far as Asylum for mentally ill but all in vain, for how bad the life of poor guys is, they are still very much reluctant to give it up, but it's only the beginning, the center of the film being three different stories of lost love, told by Death to the young woman, similar to her own, but set in three different exotic locations such as: China, Venice and Turkey.

A really amazing silent film, very romantic story but at the same time a moral tale with philosophical message in it. A must see. 10/10