Nosferatu (1922)
(Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens)
Country: GER
Technical: bw 72m (24fps)
Director: F. W. Murnau
Cast: Max Schreck, Gustav Von Wangenheim, Greta Schröder
Synopsis:
An estate agent's clerk journeys to Transylvania to do business with a Count wishing to purchase a house in the north German port of Wisburg: the Dracula story with a bald, rodent-like vampiric seducer. Its most memorable sequence is the voyage home in a ship full of rats.
Review:
Eerily gothic and far less reticent about its subject matter than the Universal film - the count is even shown rising from his coffin, horror of horrors! - and it has its risible equivalent of the former's paper bats in some startling effects. Most important, though, is the self-sacrifice of the heroine, carrying with it a poignancy and a mythic sense of justice.
(Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens)
Country: GER
Technical: bw 72m (24fps)
Director: F. W. Murnau
Cast: Max Schreck, Gustav Von Wangenheim, Greta Schröder
Synopsis:
An estate agent's clerk journeys to Transylvania to do business with a Count wishing to purchase a house in the north German port of Wisburg: the Dracula story with a bald, rodent-like vampiric seducer. Its most memorable sequence is the voyage home in a ship full of rats.
Review:
Eerily gothic and far less reticent about its subject matter than the Universal film - the count is even shown rising from his coffin, horror of horrors! - and it has its risible equivalent of the former's paper bats in some startling effects. Most important, though, is the self-sacrifice of the heroine, carrying with it a poignancy and a mythic sense of justice.
(Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens)
Country: GER
Technical: bw 72m (24fps)
Director: F. W. Murnau
Cast: Max Schreck, Gustav Von Wangenheim, Greta Schröder
Synopsis:
An estate agent's clerk journeys to Transylvania to do business with a Count wishing to purchase a house in the north German port of Wisburg: the Dracula story with a bald, rodent-like vampiric seducer. Its most memorable sequence is the voyage home in a ship full of rats.
Review:
Eerily gothic and far less reticent about its subject matter than the Universal film - the count is even shown rising from his coffin, horror of horrors! - and it has its risible equivalent of the former's paper bats in some startling effects. Most important, though, is the self-sacrifice of the heroine, carrying with it a poignancy and a mythic sense of justice.