Nosferatu
Sign in to saveNosferatu: A Symphony of Horror () is a 1922 silent German Expressionist vampire film directed by F. W. Murnau from a screenplay by Henrik Galeen. It stars Max Schreck as Count Orlok, a vampire who preys on the wife (Greta Schröder) of his estate agent (Gustav von Wangenheim) and brings the plague to their town.
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Nosferatu is a 1922 silent German film about a vampire named Count Orlok who targets a woman and brings plague to her town, directed by F. W. Murnau and starring Max Schreck. It remains a landmark work of early cinema, establishing many visual conventions of horror filmmaking through its expressionist style.
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7.7The mysterious Count Orlok summons a happily married real estate agent to his castle, located up in the Transylvanian mountains, to finalise a terrifying deal.
Released: 1922-02-1689 minDir: F. W. MurnauHorror, Fantasy
Cast
- Max Schreck as Count Orlok
- Gustav von Wangenheim as Hutter
- Greta Schröder as Ellen
- Georg H. Schnell as Harding
- Ruth Landshoff as Ruth
- Gustav Botz as Professor Sievers
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16 sectionsContents
- Plot
- Cast
- Themes
- The Other
- Occultism
- World War I
- Production
- Music
- Release
- Reception
- Home media and copyright status
- Remakes
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror () is a 1922 silent German Expressionist vampire film directed by F. W. Murnau from a screenplay by Henrik Galeen. It stars Max Schreck as Count Orlok, a vampire who preys on the wife (Greta Schröder) of his estate agent (Gustav von Wangenheim) and brings the plague to their town.
Nosferatu was produced by Prana Film and is an unofficial and unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula. Various names and other details were changed from the novel, including Count Dracula being renamed Count Orlok. Although those changes are often represented as a defense against copyright infringement accusations, the original German intertitles acknowledged Dracula as the source. Film historian David Kalat states in his commentary track that since the film was "a low-budget film made by Germans for German audiences... setting it in Germany with German-named characters makes the story more tangible and immediate for German-speaking viewers".