The Masque of the Red Death, short story by Edgar Allan Poe[1]
Produced by
Erich Pommer
Starring
Theodor Becker Karl Bernhard Julietta Brandt
Cinematography
Willy Hameister Emil Schünemann[2]
Music by
Bruno Gellert
Production company
Decla Film
Release date
23 October 1919 (1919-10-23)[3]
Running time
102 minutes (2000 restored version)
Country
Weimar Germany
Languages
Silent German intertitles
The Plague in Florence (German: Pest in Florenz)[a] is a 1919 German silent historical film directed by Otto Rippert for Eric Pommer's Deutsche Eclair (Decla) production company. The screenplay was written by Fritz Lang.[2] It stars Marga von Kierska, Theodor Becker, Karl Bernhard and Julietta Brandt.[4] The film is a tragic romance set in Florence in 1348, just before the first outbreaks in Italy of the Black Death, which then spread out across the entire continent.[5]
Lang's screenplay was based on the Edgar Allan Poe story "The Masque of the Red Death", but he heightened the story's sexual tension by making the plague the result of the actions of a young seductress.
^Sarno 2005, p. 132.
^ abWorkman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 209.ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.
^Film-Kurier (Berlin) vol. 1, no. 107, 9 October 1919, p. 3. (in German). Accessed 23 February 2016.
^Ott, p.19
^Tibayrenc 2007, p. 731.
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