Summaries

When a woman's fiancé disappears, Death gives her three chances to save him from his fate.

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.—Doug Sederberg <[email protected]>

In a small village somewhere in time, a stranger lease for ninety-nine years a field annex to the cemetery and surround it with a very high wall without gate. When a young couple of travelers stop in a local tavern for resting, the fiancé vanishes and her fiancée seeks him and meets his spirit entering through the wall. She finds an entrance and finds that the stranger is actually Death, who is tired of bringing suffering to the world. She begs for the life of her beloved fiancé, and Death proposes her to save one of three lives that are in the end. If she succeeds, Death will bring her lover back to live. The lady becomes a woman in Persia, in Venice and in China, and in all situations she fails to save her respective lover. Death gives her one last chance, if she manages to find within one hour a person in the village that could give up living. When the local hospital is burning in fire, the young woman realizes the only way to stay with her lover.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Details

Keywords
  • monster movie
  • silent film
  • expressionism
  • reaper
  • silent movie
Genres
  • Thriller
  • Fantasy
  • Horror
  • Drama
Release date Jan 29, 1922
Motion Picture Rating (MPA) Not Rated
Countries of origin Germany
Language German
Filming locations Studio Babelsberg, Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany
Production companies Decla-Bioscop AG

Box office

Gross US & Canada $12156
Opening weekend US & Canada $2334
Gross worldwide $12156

Tech specs

Runtime 1h 37m
Sound mix Silent
Aspect ratio 1.33 : 1

Synopsis

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