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Bookmark this pageDestiny (1921)
Director: Fritz Lang
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From Time Out Film Guide
Lang's first major success was inspired by the Intolerance device of mixing parallel settings and cultures. Death gives a young girl three chances to save her lover's life, in old Baghdad, in 17th century Venice, and in mythical China. The tone ranges from baroque melodrama to eccentric whimsy, and the plotting is full of digressions and asides, but Lang's design sense and use of architectural space gives the film a basic consistency. And the plentiful special effects still look amazingly inventive.Author: TR
Cast & crew
Director: Fritz Lang
Producer: Erich Pommer
Cast: Bernhard Goetzke, Lil Dagover, Walter Janssen, Rudolph Klein-Rogge, Georg John, Eduard Von Winterstein, Karl Huszar full cast
Duration: 7 mins
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