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Destiny

Destiny

Love is Stronger Than Death

1921•1h 38m•7.4/10
DramaFantasyThriller

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7.4/10(174)

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.

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Decla-Bioscop

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Status

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Cast

Lil Dagover

Lil Dagover

Young Woman / Zobeide / Mona Fiametta / Tiao Tsien

Walter Janssen

Walter Janssen

Young Man / Frank / Gianfrancesco / Liang

Bernhard Goetzke

Bernhard Goetzke

Death / El Mot / Archer

Hans Sternberg

Hans Sternberg

Mayor

Karl Rückert

Reverend

Max Adalbert

Max Adalbert

Notary / Chancellor

Wilhelm Diegelmann

Wilhelm Diegelmann

Doctor

Erich Pabst

Teacher

Karl Platen

Karl Platen

Pharmacist

Hermann Picha

Hermann Picha

Taylor

Paul Rehkopf

Paul Rehkopf

Gravedigger

Max Pfeiffer

Night Watchman

Georg John

Georg John

Beggar

Lydia Potechina

Lydia Potechina

Landlady

Grete Berger

Mother

Rudolf Klein-Rogge

Rudolf Klein-Rogge

Dervish / Girolamo

Eduard von Winterstein

Caliph (uncredited)

Lothar Müthel

Confidant (uncredited)

Edgar Pauly

Edgar Pauly

Girolamo's Friend (uncredited)

Louis Brody

Louis Brody

Moor (uncredited)

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