"The film was restored in 1999/2000 by Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung in collaboration with Bundesarchiv" " Filmarchiv in Berlin." "The basis was a camera negative from Bundesarchiv" " Filmarchiv in Berlin." "The camera negative misses the initial credits and the intertitles." "These were reconstructed using the censorship cards." "The typography is based on another film from the same company of the same period." "The position of the titles is indicated by handwritten numbers in the negative." "Copying work was done by L'Immagine Ritrovata in Bologna." "The work on the titles was done by trickWilk in Berlin." "The restored master was used as the basis for the 2K digitisation in 2014." "THE PLAGUE IN FLORENCE" "Seven chapters of the Italian Renaissance, retold by Fritz Lang" "The scenography and the interior design were made by the painter Warm." "The exterior design and the Florentine buildings were designed and directed by Royal Architect Franz Jaffe." "The photography was provided by Willi Hameister." "The original music was written by the composer and conductor Bruno Gellert." "1st Chapter." "Indomitable and cruel, the Council of Elders reigned in Florence." "Cesare, the potentate of Florence." "The morning of Corpus Christi." ""There has been no joy in Florence since only the elders govern!" "No game, no festival, no dancing - only seriousness and praying!" "We, the young ones, want to have sun - love ---"" ""Enough!" "It's a feast day!" "The church is calling the sinners!"" "The procession." ""You've seen the woman who stopped the procession on the square of Our Lady?" "!"" ""She's the most beautiful woman I've ever seen " "Try to find out who she is!"" ""You have seen the woman who stopped our procession!" "She is too beautiful not to emerge as a powerful adversary of the Church."" ""Go and question her about her faith!"" "End of the 1st chapter." "2nd Chapter." ""She's a courtesan who recently came from Venice..."" ""And tell her that I'll invite myself as a guest at her place this night!"" ""Tell your master that all the treasures of Ophir wouldn't suffice to buy a single word of love from me!"" ""But if he wants to come as a guest today, he shall be welcome!"" ""The highest servant of the Church has sent me to question you about your faith."" ""The God I believe in is love!" """ ""But she will gladly receive you even today, if you come as her guest!"" ""They don't serve the Church according to their duty " "She wants to spread pagan customs among the people " "Her only faith - she says, is -- love!"" ""There is only one power in this city -- and they who are not for us, are against us!"" "And while this was happening..." ""Grant my wish and you shall be the uncrowned ruler of Florence."" ""If you don't want my love, you shall have my hate!"" ""I welcome you as my guest, and doubly glad, as you're a real man!"" ""I shall give a feast to the Florentines and see happy people laughing around me!" "And I'll share all my happiness with other people " "Florence is dead -- I shall bring it love!"" ""The devil himself has sent us this woman who will poison our youth, and perhaps the people --"" "The feast." ""Open wide the gates of my gardens, so that even the poorest feels joyful today!"" ""Now that even the people is on her side, she has pronounced her fate herself!" "Before the end of the day she will account to the Council of Elders!"" "End of the 2nd chapter." "3rd Chapter." ""My friends!" "Citizens of Florence!" "The Council of Elders, which hates joy, has had your goddess arrested, because she gave you a day of joy!" "Insist on your rights -- Be free citizens, not slaves!" """ "And for Florence a time of the most unrestrained pleasures began." "Priests and monks preached in vain." "There was only one watchword:" "Love and sensual pleasure." ""God's anger looms heavily over this city in which the words of the faithful have no value anymore!" """ ""And that is why we shall leave this city, as Lot once left Sodom, and we shall not look back, so that sin will attain no power over us."" ""Lorenzo has set himself up as ruler of Florence."" "Feast followed feast." "Then the depraved city found an admonisher in the mountains." "Medardus, the hermit." ""Even today you will be worshipped as the Queen of Love of Florence!"" ""Woe upon you!" "A Sodom and Gomorrah has been created!" """ ""And if you don't believe my words, the stones will speak to you!" """ "End of the 3rd chapter." "4th Chapter." "Two days had passed " ""It's late, mistress!"" ""I can't forget him --- my thoughts are always with him." "You must find me a way to meet him again."" ""Lord, take away this cup from me!"" ""Hunting, I lost my way -- and I'm hungry and thirsty!"" ""Cease from the life that you're living, it leads you away from God -- towards hell!"" ""Lord!" "Let there be a miracle to save the soul of this sinner!" """ ""I'll lead you to the city of the tormented." "I'll lead you to unlimited pain." "I'll show you the place of the lost!"" "End of the 4th chapter." "5th Chapter." "And when the evening had come " "End of the 5th chapter." "6th Chapter." "From that night on, Lorenzo was forgotten and Medardus ruled in his place." "And life in Florence became wilder and wilder." "In the Vatican, where the Florentine clergy had found refuge, merchants reported about the goings-on in Florence." ""Excommunication has already been pronounced - thrice this city shall be cursed, until it makes atonement."" ""A message from the Vatican."" ""Anathema upon you!" """ "Law and order had become terms without any meaning." "So the stones begin to speak." "And nature rebels against the love life against nature." "And the plague breaks out." ""The black death rages outside of Florence."" ""Close the gates!" "Nobody is to get in or out!" "" "Let us seclude ourselves from the world, so that the plague can't get in to us!" """ "And the Florentines closed their gates to the world." "Day and night the stakes were burning, so that the plague wouldn't rise." "And the behaviour of the Florentines became madder and madder, and the life of the two people more and more ardent with love." ""Live and enjoy, one day death will come, and until then we shall make the most of life, to the last drop!"" "Examined, weighed, and found wanting." "Remorse drives Medardus out of the city." "And while Medardus was looking for a way out of the closed Florence " "End of the 6th chapter." "7th Chapter." "The victims of the plague." "Where the plague claimed its victims, Medardus was to be found, too." ""Lord, I repent, show me my way!"" ""Expiate!"" ""Lord, I don't want to impede your judgement any longer," "I myself will bring the plague to Florence."" "Now Medardus felt that he, too, carried the germ of the plague." "His time had come." "And in Florence " ""Cease from mourning the vanished, the living belong to life!" """ """ " Let's give a masked ball, which will make you forget all your sorrows!"" "And also Medardus expiated his guilt." "And the great dying came upon Florence " "The End." "Subtitles by Tommaso."