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Released: 2001-01-02

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Nosferatu DVD Cast & Features Cast:
Gustav Boltz, Karl Etlinger, John Gottowt, Wolfgang Heinz, Guido Herzfeld, Max Nemetz, Albert Venohr, Hardy von Francois, Max Schreck, Alexander Granach, Gustav von Wangenheim, Greta Schroeder, G.H. Schnell, Ruth Landshoff

Director(s): F.W. Murnau

Features:
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Nosferatu DVD Details

Video:
Pre-1954 Standard
Audio:
silent
PCM stereo
Subtitles:
English

Running Time: 81
Genre: Horror Sci-fi Fantasy
Item Weight: 1
UPC: 014381027723
Product Code: IMG277DVD
Format: DVD
Year:1922
Studio: Image Entertainment

Nosferatu DVD Summary F.

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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 von Wagenheim) has arrived to close a sale with the reclusive Herr Orlok (Max Schreck).

Despite the feverish warnings of the local peasants, Hutter insists upon completing his journey to Orlok's sinister castle.

While enjoying his host's hospitality, Hutter accidently cuts his finger-whereupon Orlok tips his hand by staring intently at the bloody digit, licking his lips.

Hutter catches on that Orlok is no ordinary mortal when he witnesses the vampiric nobleman loading himself into a coffin in preparation for his journey to Bremen.

By the time the ship bearing Orlok arrives at its destination, the captain and crew have all been killed-and partially devoured.

There follows a wave of mysterious deaths in Bremen, which the local authorities attribute to a plague of some sort.

But Ellen, Hutter's wife, knows better.

Armed with the knowledge that a vampire will perish upon exposure to the rays of the sun, Ellen offers herself to Orlok, deliberately keeping him "entertained" until sunrise.

At the cost of her own life, Ellen ends Orlok's reign of terror once and for all.

Rumors still persist that Max Schreck, the actor playing Nosferatu, was actually another, better-known performer in disguise.

Whatever the case, Schreck's natural countenance was buried under one of the most repulsive facial makeups in cinema history-one that was copied to even greater effect by Klaus Kinski in Werner Herzog's 1979 remake - Nosferatu the Vampyre.