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Journey into the Night (1921)

Journey into the Night (1921)

Drama
Release Date: 1921, January 21
Directors: F. W. Murnau
Countries: Germany, Denmark
Production: Goron Film
Cast: Conrad Veidt, Gudrun Bruun Stephensen, Erna Morena, Olaf Fønss

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.