Nosferatu
March 15, 2011Nosferatu
Call Number: DVD01072
by: F W Murnau; Henrik Galeen; Max Schreck; Gustav von Wangenheim; Alexander Granach; Greta Schroeder-Matrey; Ruth Yorck; Fritz Arno Wagner; Albin Grau; Hans Erdmann; Berndt Heller; Luciano Berriatúa; Bram Stoker; Kino International Corporation.; Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung.; Saarländischer Rundfunk. Sinfonie-Orchester.;
Format: DVD
Language: English (Silent)
Publisher: Wiesbaden : Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung ; New York, NY : [Distributed by] Kino International, ©2007.
Notes: Originally produced as a motion picture in 1922. Running Time Aprox 111 min. Based on the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker, adapted by Henrik Galeen. “Reconstruction of Hans Erdmann’s original 1921 score by Berndt Heller. Performed by the Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra”–Container. Special features (disc 1): Die Sprache der Schatten = The language of shadows (52-minute documentary by Luciano Berriatúa); Nosferatu : an historic film meets digital restoration (3-minute documentary); lengthy excerpts from other films by F.W. Murnau: Journey into the night (1920), The haunted castle (1921), Phantom (1922), The finances of the grand duke (1924), The last laugh (1924), Tartuffe (1925), Faust (1926) and Tabu (1931); scene comparisons; photo gallery.
Summary: The first film version of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Count Orlok leaves his castle in the Carpathians and travels by ship to Bremen, bringing coffins filled with dirt and plague rats. Rather than depict Dracula as a shape-shifting monster or debonair gentleman, Murnau’s Graf Orlok is a nightmarish, spidery creature with a bulbous head and taloned claws.
OCLC #: 181912539
Added: March 15, 2011
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
