Silent Film with Organ: Der müde Tod

The opening event of the series "Organ: Music from the Moment" focuses on a milestone of film history: Fritz Lang's "Der müde Tod" (Destiny). The silent film, made in 1921, tells in striking images of love, loss and the confrontation with the inevitable. Across several episodes that lead through different times and cultures, a young woman wrestles with Death for the life of her beloved, a story that ranks, visually and narratively, among the defining works of early cinema and continues to resonate today.