''The Dance of Death'' (German: ''Der Totentanz'') is a 1919 German silent

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directed by

Otto Rippert Otto Rippert (22 October 1869 – 15 January 1940) was a German film director during the silent film era. Biography Rippert was born in Offenbach am Main, Germany, and began his career as a stage actor, working in theatres in Baden-Baden, Forst ...

and starring

Werner Krauss Werner Johannes Krauss (''Krauß'' in German; 23 June 1884 – 20 October 1959) was a German stage and film actor. Krauss dominated the German stage of the early 20th century. However, his participation in the antisemitic propaganda film ''Jud S ...

Sascha Gura Sascha Gura (born Eugenie Therese Gura; 9 June 1896 – 1 April 1946) was a German stage and film actress active in the silent era.Hardt p.218 Selected filmography * '' The Dance of Death'' (1919) * '' The Hunchback and the Dancer'' (1920) * '' ...

and

Karl Bernhard Karl may refer to: People * Karl (given name), including a list of people and characters with the name * Karl der Große, commonly known in English as Charlemagne * Karl Marx, German philosopher and political writer * Karl of Austria, last Austria ...

.Hardt p.217-18 The film's sets were designed by the

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Hermann Warm Hermann Warm was a German art director for films. Born in 1889 (died 1976) in Berlin, Germany, Warm was an important figure in the expressionist movement of the 1920s. Warm entered the German film industry in 1912 after working on-stage for a whil ...

Cast

as The Cripple *

as The Beautiful Dancer *

as Frederic Hennekemper * Arnold Czempin as Dr. Sellin *

Fred Goebel Fred Goebel (3 April 1891 – 16 May 1964) was a German film actor. He was born as Walter Goebel and was sometimes credited as Fred Selva-Goebel. Selected filmography * '' Child on the Open Road'' (1919) * '' The Dance of Death'' (1919) * '' Bett ...

as Harry Free, der Flieger * Richard Kirsch * Joseph Römer

References

Bibliography

* Hardt, Ursula. ''From Caligari to California: Erich Pommer's Life in the International Film Wars''. Berghahn Books, 1996. * McGilligan, Patrick. ''Fritz Lang: The Nature of the Beast''. University of Minnesota Press, 2013.

External links

* 1919 films 1919 horror films Films of the Weimar Republic German silent feature films Films directed by Otto Rippert German horror films German black-and-white films Silent horror films 1910s German films {{1910s-horror-film-stub