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Die Pest in Florenz (literally translates to "The Plague in Florence"), the 1919 Otto Rippert German silent Italy historical horror fantasy romantic love triangle melodrama (written by Fritz Lang, and loosely based on the Edgar Allan Poe story "The Masque of the Red Death"; about a mysterious "evil woman" who appears in Florence, Italy, and she causes the ruler of the city and his son to both fall in love with her; the ruler orders her tortured and killed, and the son kills his father before that can happen, and then the son takes over and destroys the city's moral values, turning churches into brothels, and the city descends into total debauchery, but a literal Death, played by a woman, shows up and brings plague to the city!) starring Theodor Becker, Karl Bernhard, Julietta Brandt (as Death), Erner Huebsch, Franz Knaak, and Marga von Kierska. Note that this movie was not directed by Fritz Lang, but he wrote the screenplay, and it is clearly similar to the movies he did direct at this time!
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Important Added Info: Note that this is a "country of origin" item for this German movie! Also note that in the 1920s and 1930s in Germany, it became a common practice to pass out 3 1/2" x 5 1/2" "Ross postcards" to the people who attended a movie. These were postcards that people could send through the mail (each had a picture of one of the movie's stars on it, and standard postcard markings on the other side). But these were also sent to theaters where the stars would make personal appearances, and members of the audience would get the stars to autograph them if they could, but of course, the cards themselves did not come autographed! Sometimes the theaters would cut four slits in the upper left of the front cover of the program for that movie and have the "Ross postcards" inserted into that area, so that the audience members would get the program and the card together! We imagine that theaters hoped that audience members would mail the postcards after they saw the movie to friends, telling them how much they enjoyed it, thus creating advertising for the movie. These are often called "Ross autograph cards" by collectors, because moviegoers did often obtain autographs on them. Ross postcards are quite collectible, signed or unsigned, but of course, they are worth far more signed. They are often quite rare, because most German paper of all kinds from before World War II was destroyed during the war, due to the massive paper shortages there at that time.

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