Desolation of the Deep

A man and woman cower in the foreground as a menacing skeleton in a cloak looms over them. A still from the Austrian film Irrlichter der Tiefe, 1923.

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Title:

Desolation of the Deep

NFSA ID

761077

Year

1923

Summary

Ilse Lorm and Josef Peterhans in Irrlichter der Tiefe (AKA Desolation of the Deep, Austria, Fritz Freisler, 1923). From the Taussig film stills collection.

1920s

Taussig Collection

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