Journey into the Night

Journey into the Night — Plot

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.

• Release date
• January 21, 1921
• Runtime
• 81 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• F. W. Murnau

Journey into the Night — Cast

Olaf Fønss Dr. Eigil Börne Erna Morena Helene Conrad Veidt Der Maler Gudrun Bruun Stephensen Lily

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Clementine Plessner