Journey into the Night (1921)

  • NR
  • 01/21/1921 (DE)
  • Drama
  • 1h 21m

Overview

Dr. Egil Börne, an eminent physician, comes under the spell of an unscrupulous cabaret dancer and deserts his fiancée. The plot finds echoes throughout the Weimar period, including Sternberg’s The Blue Angel. Conrad Veidt appears in a supporting role as a sinister blind painter, whose entrance eerily presages Murnau’s Nosferatu. Der Gang in die Nacht, the earliest surviving film by F. W. Murnau, is also, paradoxically, the only Murnau film for which the original camera negative exists.

F. W. Murnau

Director

Carl Mayer

Writer

Harriet Bloch

Story

Cast

Olaf Fønss's headshot

Olaf Fønss

Dr. Eigil Börne
Erna Morena's headshot

Erna Morena

Helene
Conrad Veidt's headshot

Conrad Veidt

Der Maler
Gudrun Bruun Stephensen's headshot

Gudrun Bruun Stephensen

Lily
Clementine Plessner's headshot

Clementine Plessner

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