Synopsis
As a young couple stops and rests in a small village inn, the man is abducted by Death and is sequestered behind a huge doorless, windowless wall. The woman finds a mystic entrance and is met by Death, who tells her three separate stories set in exotic locales, all involving circumstances similar to hers.
Cast
Lil Dagover
Young Woman / Zobeide / Mona Fiametta / Tiao Tsien
Walter Janssen
Young Man / Frank / Gianfrancesco / Liang
Bernhard Goetzke
Death / El Mot / Archer
Hans Sternberg
Mayor
Karl Rückert
Reverend
Max Adalbert
Notary / Chancellor
Wilhelm Diegelmann
Doctor
Erich Pabst
Teacher
Karl Platen
Pharmacist
Hermann Picha
Taylor
Paul Rehkopf
Gravedigger
Max Pfeiffer
Night Watchman
Georg John
Beggar
Lydia Potechina
Landlady
Grete Berger
Mother
Rudolf Klein-Rogge
Dervish / Girolamo
Eduard von Winterstein
Caliph (uncredited)
Lothar Müthel
Confidant (uncredited)
Edgar Pauly
Girolamo's Friend (uncredited)
Louis Brody
Moor (uncredited)
Károly Huszár
Emperor of China
Paul Biensfeldt
A Hi (uncredited)
Neumann-Schüler
Executioner (uncredited)
Ernst Rückert
Priest (uncredited)
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