--- title: 'The Plague of Florence (1919)' type: 'film' director: 'Otto Rippert' released: '1919-01-01' runtime_minutes: 73 genres: - 'Drama' - 'Horror' - 'History' countries: - 'Germany' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-plague-of-florence-1919' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0010559/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # The Plague of Florence (1919) 1919 · 73 min · Drama, Horror, History · Germany Original title: Die Pest in Florenz ## Synopsis The Plague in Florence 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. ## Credits - **Producer:** [Erich Pommer](https://cinepixo.com/people/erich-pommer) - **Director of Photography:** [Willy Hameister](https://cinepixo.com/people/willy-hameister), [Emil Schünemann](https://cinepixo.com/people/emil-schunemann) - **Director:** [Otto Rippert](https://cinepixo.com/people/otto-rippert) - **Screenplay:** [Fritz Lang](https://cinepixo.com/people/fritz-lang) - **Original Music Composer:** [Bruno Gellert](https://cinepixo.com/people/bruno-gellert) ## Cast - [Auguste Prasch-Grevenberg](https://cinepixo.com/people/auguste-prasch-grevenberg) - [Theodor Becker](https://cinepixo.com/people/theodor-becker) - [Hans Walter](https://cinepixo.com/people/hans-walter) - [Julietta Brandt](https://cinepixo.com/people/julietta-brandt) - [Erner Hübsch](https://cinepixo.com/people/erner-hubsch) - [Erich Bartels](https://cinepixo.com/people/erich-bartels) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-plague-of-florence-1919 Film facts: Wikidata (Q1215389); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.