Journey into the Night
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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.
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Cast
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Olaf Fønss
Dr. Eigil Börne
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Conrad Veidt
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Gudrun Bruun Stephensen
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F. W. Murnau Director · Carl Mayer Writer Harriet Bloch Story
First release January 21, 1921 · Produced in Germany, Denmark · Original title Der Gang in die Nacht
Production
Goron Film
Production
Germany · Denmark
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Original title
Der Gang in die Nacht
Original language
German
Spoken on screen
No dialogue
Release dates
Germany · January 21, 1921
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No release date listed for United States.
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