Destiny - Impressions from the movie

Fritz Lang, Director

Fritz Lang, Director

Fritz Lang, Director

Bernhard Goetzke, Actor

Lil Dagover, Actress

Lil Dagover, Actress

Nighttime scene: burning infirmary

Cemetery by night: The girl, looking for her fiancé

Chinese episode (special effects scene): The flight on the magician’s carpet

Oriental Episode: The caliph’s palace, Ramadan

The palace in the Oriental Episode.

Rediscovered intertitle of the Oriental Episode: The Story of the First Light

Death (Bernhard Goetzke) at the crossroads.

The story is set in a small town in Old Germany

Death (Bernhard Goetzke)

Behind the high wall lies the realm of Death (Bernhard Goetzke)

Erich Pommer, Producer

The girl (Lil Dagover)

Venetian episode: Mona Fiametta (Lil Dagover) and Girolamo (Rudolf Klein-Rogge)

Frame story trick scene (double exposure): Death (Bernhard Goetzke), the girl (Lil Dagover) and her lover (Walter Janssen)

Death (Bernhard Goetzke) and the girl (Lil Dagover) in the realm of the dead

The lovers (Lil Dagover and Walter Janssen) and the magician (Paul Biensfeldt) in the Chinese episode

The lovers (Lil Dagover and Walter Janssen) and the magician (Paul Biensfeldt) in the Chinese Episode.

Oriental Episode: The caliph’s sister Zobeide and her lover, who has been sentenced to death (Lil Dagover and Walter Janssen)

Frame story: Death (Bernhard Goetzke), the girl (Lil Dagover) and her lover (Walter Janssen)

Frame story: The lovers (Lil Dagover and Walter Janssen)