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The Dance of Death (1919) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1919 · 84 mins
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- Directed by
- Otto Rippert
- Starring
- Werner Krauss, Karl Bernhard, Arnold Czempin, Sascha Gura, Fred Goebel, Richard Kirsch
Presented as an apparently lost film, a captivating dancer’s sensual charm is exploited by a malevolent cripple who lures men to their deaths. When she falls for one of the intended victims, the cripple promises her freedom if her lover—himself a murderer—survives and escapes a bizarre labyrinth beneath the cripple’s house.
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