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The Dance of Death (1919) · Der Totentanz

Name: The Dance of Death
Director: Otto Rippert
Genre: Death game, Drama, found footage
Released: 1919
Duration: 84 min
Cast: Werner Krauss, Sascha Gura, Fred Goebel, Karl Bernhard, Arnold Czempin

Original title: Der Totentanz

1919 · Otto Rippert · 84 min · Germany · Edited by 1

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In this apparently lost film, a beautiful dancer's sexual allure is used by an evil cripple to entice men to their deaths. Falling in love with one of the potential victims, she is told by the cripple that he will set her free if her lover, actually a murderer himself, survives and escapes a bizarre labyrinthe which runs beneath the cripple's house.

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The Dance of Death (1919) · Der Totentanz

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