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The Dance of Death 1919 Directed by Otto Rippert Der Totentanz

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.

Country Germany
Production Country Germany
Language German
Spoken Language No Language
Gneres Drama , Horror
Production Company Helios Film
Release Date 31 October 1919
84 mins
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Werner Krauss The Cripple
Sascha Gura The Beautiful Dancer
Fred Goebel Harry Free
Karl Bernhard Frederic Hennekemper
Arnold Czempin Dr. Sellin
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