Drama Fantasy Thriller
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.
Directed by
Fritz Lang
Written by
Thea von Harbou, Fritz Lang
Lil Dagover
Young Woman / Zobeide / Mona Fiametta / Tiao Tsien
Walter Janssen
Young Man / Frank / Gianfrancesco / Liang
Hermann Picha
Taylor
Bernhard Goetzke
Death / El Mot / Archer
Rudolf Klein-Rogge
Dervish / Girolamo
Karl Platen
Pharmacist
Hermann Vallentin
(uncredited)
Paul Biensfeldt
A Hi (uncredited)
Georg John
Beggar
Edgar Pauly
Girolamo's Friend (uncredited)
Max Adalbert
Notary / Chancellor
Lydia Potechina
Landlady
Wilhelm Diegelmann
Doctor
Hans Sternberg
Mayor
Paul Rehkopf
Gravedigger
Louis Brody
Moor (uncredited)
Károly Huszár
Emperor of China
Ernst Rückert
Priest (uncredited)
Karl Rückert
Reverend
Erich Pabst
Teacher
Grete Berger
Mother
Eduard von Winterstein
Caliph (uncredited)
Lothar Müthel
Confidant (uncredited)
Neumann-Schüler
Executioner (uncredited)
Erika Unruh
Ayesha

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