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Nosferatu
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1hr 3min
Genre:
Horror
Release:
1922
Director:
F.W. Murnau
Distributor:
Image Entertainment
Starring:
Max Schreck, Alexander Granach, Gustav von Wangenheim  ...more
Synopsis: F. W. Murnau's landmark vampire film Nosferatu isn't merely a variation on Bram Stoker's Dracula: it's a direct steal, so much so that Stoker's widow went to court, demanding in vain that the Murnau film be suppressed and destroyed. The character names have been changed to protect the guilty (in the original German prints, at least), but devotees of Stoker will have little trouble recognizing their Dracula counterparts. The film begins in the Carpathian mountains, where real estate agent Hutter (Gustav ... Full Synopsis
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Lucia Bozzola
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The film that brought one of German cinema's masters to international attention, F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu (1922) is also one of the best screen versions of Dracula, even if the Bram Stoker source received no credit. Eschewing the elaborately artificial studio-bound sets that gave most German Expressionist films their luridly somber mood, Murnau used actual central European locations for his vampire ... Full Review
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Max Schreck
Graf Orlok, Nosferatu
Alexander Granach
Knock
Gustav von Wangenheim
Hutter, His Employee
Greta Schroeder
Ellen Hutter
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