Journey into the Night

Der Gang in die Nacht

1921·85'

Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau

Duitsland

★ 6.1

Letterboxd TMDB #175422

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.

Cast

Olaf Fønss Dr. Eigil Börne

Erna Morena Helene

Conrad Veidt Der Maler

Gudrun Bruun Stephensen Lily

Clementine Plessner