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The Dance of Death

Original title: Der Totentanz

★ 7.0 TMDB Rating · 1 votes

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.

Director
Otto Rippert
Release date
Oct 31, 1919
Original language
German
Origin
Germany

Cast of The Dance of Death

  • Portrait of Werner Krauss

    Werner Krauss

    The Cripple

  • Portrait of Sascha Gura

    Sascha Gura

    The Beautiful Dancer

  • Fred Goebel

    Harry Free

  • Karl Bernhard

    Frederic Hennekemper

  • Arnold Czempin

    Dr. Sellin

  • Richard Kirsch

  • Joseph Römer

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