Destiny (Der müde Tod)
1921, NR, 105 min.
Directed by Fritz Lang, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Lil Dagover, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Bernhard Goetzke, Walter Janssen.

Austin film score veterans ST 37 (Metropolis) turn their musical talent to this early. and rarely screened, Fritz Lang silent. The film was Lang’s first to achieve any real critical success, and shows the director’s flair for architectural foreboding and stylized compositions. The story is a three-part allegory about a woman’s effort to pry her lover from Death’s corporeal grasp.

This article appears in April 19 • 2002.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.