The Dance of Death (German: Paarungen) is a 1967 West German drama film directed by Michael Verhoeven and starring Lilli Palmer, Paul Verhoeven and Karl Michael Vogler.

An egocentric artillery Captain and his venomous wife engage in savage unremitting battles in their isolated island fortress off the coast of Sweden at the turn of the century.

Edgar, an aging schizophrenic who refuses to acknowledge his severe illness, struggles to sustain his ferocity and arrogance with an animal disregard for other people.

Sensing that Alice, together with her cousin and would-be lover, Kurt, may ally against him, retaliates with vicious force.

Alice lures Kurt into the illusion of sharing a passionate assignation and recruits him in a plot to destroy Edgar.