The Black Death is ravaging Spain. As Camille Saint-Saëns's "Danse Macabre" plays on the soundtrack, a mix of animation and acted scenes tells the story of Youth and Love meeting one night. They dance, embrace, and kiss. As the night wears on, exuberant Death, a skeletal figure with a violin, pursues the couple. They try to elude him. Eventually, Love swoons. Youth is powerless to protect her. Is she doomed?
Watch the official Danse macabre 1922 trailer in HD below.
The mysterious Count Orlok summons a happily married real estate agent to his castle, located up in the Transylvanian mountains, to finalise a terrifying deal.
Sergei M. Eisenstein's docu-drama about the 1917 October Revolution in Russia. Made ten years after the events and edited in Eisenstein's 'Soviet Montage' style, it re-enacts in celebratory terms several key scenes from the revolution.
A semi-documentary experimental 1930 German silent film created by amateurs with a small budget. With authentic scenes of the metropolis city of Berlin, it's the first film from the later famous screenwriters/directors Billy Wilder and Fred Zinnemann.
A young woman trying to make it in Hollywood decides that the only way she can attain stardom is to go the "vamp" route, although in her private life she's nothing like her on-screen character.
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Danse macabre (Trailer)
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Stephen King's Danse Macabre
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Music Video - "Danse Macabre" (Revisited) (Silent film + 78rpm)!
On October 29th 2007 I posted one of the first music videos I have made; "Danse Macabre". It was a combination of the 1922 short film starring Adolph Bohm ...
Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) - The Danse Macabre Scene
My favourite scene; Lucy (Isabelle Adjani) walks through the main square of Wismar among the plague-afflicted. Some dance while other dine outside resigned ...
Danse Macabre Silent Film
This is my own interpretation of the concept 'Danse Macabre' based on the music by Camille Saint-Saens. My film begins with a young girl (representing youth ...
Popular movie trailers from 1922
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1922:
Twin brothers are serving in the French army during the Great War. Jacques, a private, leads his brother's company to attack when Honoré, a lieutenant, panics and flees.
Rancher Bill Holt has a small homestead and insists on holding onto his land, much to the chagrin of crotchety old Judd Acker, a neighboring rancher who would like to see him vacate.
On an island in the South Seas, derelict Tony Heritage is rescued from savage natives by trader and ship captain Rod McLean, but repays him by stealing Rod’s money and fleeing to France.
A young man from the country travels to the city to find his fortune. Although he has a letter of introduction from his wealthy uncle, the best job he can find is that of a street cleaner.
The animals are out enjoying sports in the wintry landscape. The little sheep girl -- who looks like a goat to me -- wants to join them instead of learning to play the harp.
