Copyright Fritz Lang: Destiny
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DESTINY - DIGITALLY RESTORED VERSION (2015/2016) by the Friedrich Wilhelm
Murnau Foundation
DESTINY (DE 1921, Director: Fritz Lang)
Behind the high wall lies the realm of Death (Bernhard Goetzke)
Coloration: orange tinting with brown toning
Digital image processing: L’Immagine Ritrovata (Bologna)
Photo/Copyright: Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation (Wiesbaden)
DESTINY (DE 1921, Director: Fritz Lang)
Death (Bernhard Goetzke) and the girl (Lil Dagover) in the realm of the dead
Coloration: yellow tinting with blue toning
Digital image processing: L’Immagine Ritrovata (Bologna)
Photo/Copyright: Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation (Wiesbaden)
DESTINY (DE 1921, Director: Fritz Lang)
The girl (Lil Dagover)
Coloration: orange tinting
Digital image processing: L’Immagine Ritrovata (Bologna)
Photo/Copyright: Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation (Wiesbaden)
DESTINY (DE 1921, Director: Fritz Lang)
Death (Bernhard Goetzke)
Coloration: orange tinting with brown toning
Digital image processing: L’Immagine Ritrovata (Bologna)
Photo/Copyright: Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation (Wiesbaden)
DESTINY (DE 1921, Director: Fritz Lang)
The story is set in a small town in Old Germany
Coloration: orange tinting
Digital image processing: L’Immagine Ritrovata (Bologna)
Photo/Copyright: Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation (Wiesbaden)
DESTINY (DE 1921, Director: Fritz Lang)
The lovers (Lil Dagover and Walter Janssen) and the magician (Paul Biensfeldt) in
the Chinese Episode.
Coloration: pink tinting
Digital image processing: L’Immagine Ritrovata (Bologna)
Photo/Copyright: Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation (Wiesbaden)
DESTINY (DE 1921, Director: Fritz Lang)
Death (Bernhard Goetzke) at the crossroads.
Coloration: orange tinting with brown toning
Digital image processing: L’Immagine Ritrovata (Bologna)
Photo/Copyright: Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation (Wiesbaden)
DESTINY (DE 1921, Director: Fritz Lang)
Rediscovered intertitle of the Oriental Episode:
The Story of the First Light
Coloration: green tinting
Digital image processing: L’Immagine Ritrovata (Bologna)
Photo/Copyright: Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation (Wiesbaden)
Destiny (DE 1921, Director: Fritz Lang)
The palace in the Oriental Episode.
Coloration: yellow tinting
Digital image processing: L’Immagine Ritrovata (Bologna)
Photo/Copyright: Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation (Wiesbaden)
DESTINY (DE 1921, Director: Fritz Lang)
Oriental Episode: The caliph’s palace, Ramadan
Coloration: light red tinting
Digital image processing: L’Immagine Ritrovata (Bologna)
Photo/Copyright: Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation (Wiesbaden)
DESTINY (DE 1921, Director: Fritz Lang)
Oriental Episode: The caliph’s sister Zobeide and her lover, who has been
sentenced to death (Lil Dagover and Walter Janssen)
Coloration: blue tinting
Digital image processing: L’Immagine Ritrovata (Bologna)
Photo/Copyright: Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation (Wiesbaden)
DESTINY (DE 1921, Director: Fritz Lang)
Venetian episode: Mona Fiametta (Lil Dagover) and Girolamo (Rudolf KleinRogge)
Coloration: yellow tinting
Digital image processing: L’Immagine Ritrovata (Bologna)
Photo/Copyright: Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation (Wiesbaden)
DESTINY (DE 1921, Director: Fritz Lang)
The lovers (Lil Dagover and Walter Janssen) and the magician (Paul Biensfeldt) in
the Chinese episode
Coloration: yellow tinting
Digital image processing: L’Immagine Ritrovata (Bologna)
Photo/Copyright: Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation (Wiesbaden)
DESTINY (DE 1921, Director: Fritz Lang)
Chinese episode (special effects scene): The flight on the magician’s carpet
Coloration: orange tinting with brown toning
Digital image processing: L’Immagine Ritrovata (Bologna)
Photo/Copyright: Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation (Wiesbaden)
DESTINY (DE 1921, Director: Fritz Lang)
Frame story: The lovers (Lil Dagover and Walter Janssen)
Coloration: orange tinting with brown toning
Digital image processing: L’Immagine Ritrovata (Bologna)
Photo/Copyright: Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation (Wiesbaden)
DESTINY (DE 1921, Director: Fritz Lang)
Cemetery by night: The girl, looking for her fiancé
Coloration: green-blue tinting
Digital image processing: L’Immagine Ritrovata (Bologna)
Photo/Copyright: Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation (Wiesbaden)
DESTINY (DE 1921, Director: Fritz Lang)
Nighttime scene: burning infirmary
Coloration: red tinting
Digital image processing: L’Immagine Ritrovata (Bologna)
Photo/Copyright: Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation (Wiesbaden)
DESTINY (DE 1921, Director: Fritz Lang)
Frame story: Death (Bernhard Goetzke), the girl (Lil Dagover) and her lover
(Walter Janssen)
Coloration: yellow tinting with blue toning
Digital image processing: L’Immagine Ritrovata (Bologna)
Photo/Copyright: Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation (Wiesbaden)
DESTINY (DE 1921, Director: Fritz Lang)
Frame story trick scene (double exposure): Death (Bernhard Goetzke), the girl
(Lil Dagover) and her lover (Walter Janssen)
Coloration: yellow tinting with blue toning
Digital image processing: L’Immagine Ritrovata (Bologna)
Photo/Copyright: Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation (Wiesbaden)
PORTRAITS
Lil Dagover, Actress Photo/Copyright: Deutsches Filminstitut ‐ DIF Bernhard Goetzke, Actor Photo/Copyright: Deutsches Filminstitut ‐ DIF Fritz Lang, Director Photo/Copyright: Deutsches Filminstitut ‐ DIF Erich Pommer, Producer Photo/Copyright: Deutsches Filminstitut ‐ DIF Pressekontakt: Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung / Murnaustraße 6 / 65189 Wiesbaden
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