The Plague in Florence (1919)

Name: The Plague in Florence
Genre: Drama, Horror, History
Released: 1919-10-23

1h 43m

Running Time

Plot.

Suddenly appearing in Florence, an evil seductress causes Cesare, the city's ruler, and his son to both fall madly in love with her. The son, killing his father before an order to torture the woman can be carried out, then turns the city's churches into dens of sexual debauchery. Acts of evil and corruption continue unabated until the arrival of Death, who brings with her a horrible plague which she is about to loose upon the city.

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Details.

Release Date
October 23, 1919

Original Name
Die Pest in Florenz

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 43m

Genres
Drama Horror History

Last updated: 2024-09-20

Wiki.

The Plague in Florence (German: Pest in Florenz) is a 1919 German silent historical film directed by Otto Rippert for Eric Pommer's Deutsche Eclair (Decla) production company. The screenplay was written by Fritz Lang. It stars Marga von Kierska, Theodor Becker, Karl Bernhard and Julietta Brandt. The film is a tragic romance set in Florence in 1348, just before the first outbreaks in Italy of the Black Death, which then spread out across the entire continent.Lang's screenplay was based on the Edgar Allan Poe story "The Masque of the Red Death", but he heightened the story's sexual tension by making the plague appear in the form of a beautiful seductress.