Destiny - Impression of the restoration

The biggest challenge in the restoration of “Destiny”: The existing copies lacked the colors, which constituted a key element of its cinematic language

Restoration of rediscovered intertitles from the film

Filmreparatur in sorgsamer Handarbeit bei der Spezialfirma L’Immagine Ritrovata (Bologna).

Anke Wilkening (right), Conservator at the Murnau Foundation, in discussion with a colorist from the specialist firm L’Immagine Ritrovata

Employees from the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation and the specialist firm L’Immagine Ritrovata in Bologna worked on the color correction

Restoration of rediscovered intertitles from the film

Negative for producing 35mm distribution prints in black and white

Scanning of the Fritz Lang classic at L’Immagine Ritrovata (Bologna)

The film is carefully repaired by hand at the specialist firm L’Immagine Ritrovata (Bologna)

The film is carefully repaired by hand at the specialist firm L’Immagine Ritrovata (Bologna)

The silent film, which was originally in color but of which only black-and-white copies survived, was re-colored to replicate the historical original after elaborate research