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One of the most terrifying of all Dracula stories, set in Germany, which finds Johnathan Harker arriving at a large gloomy castle, despite his wife's protests at his going, to be confronted, out of the mist, by Count Dracula...Product Identifiers
ProducerWerner Herzog
EAN5060020700606
eBay Product ID (ePID)59527352
Product Key Features
Film/TV TitleNosferatu
ActorTim Beekman, Isabelle Adjani, John Leddy, Carsten Bodinus, Klaus Kinski, Clemens Scheitz, Margiet Van Hartingsveld, Rijk De Gooyer, Martje Grohmann, Beverly Walker, Bruno Ganz, Jan Groth, Jacques Dufilho, Dan Van Husen, Roland Topor, Walter Ladengast, Lo Van Hensbergen
DirectorWerner Herzog
FormatDVD
LanguageGerman
Release Year2006
FeaturesScene Selection
GenreHorror/Occult, General
Additional Product Features
Certificate15
Number of Discs2
Country/Region of ManufactureGermany
Director of PhotographyJorg Schmidt-Reitwein
Costume DesignerGloria Storch
Production DesignerUlrich Bergfelder, Henning von Gierke
ReviewsEntertainment Weekly - "...A real film artist updates a classic....[Kinski's Nosferatu] gets under your skin..." -- Rating: A-, Variety - ...Pictorially striking....Klaus Kinski is a pleasure to watch as the vampire...
AuthorBram Stoker, Henrik Galeen
Additional InformationApproaching the legendary German classic 1922 film NOSFERATU: EIN SYMPHONIE DES GRAUENS by F.W. Murnau with his own unique sensibilities, Werner Herzog establishes a link between himself and the classic days of German cinema and in the process crafts a lush adaptation as well as a classic in its own right. Stark, symbolic cinematography and intensely stylized performances create what Herzog refers to as a different plane of reality, injecting the age-old tale of Count Dracula with a modern sense of mysticism, desire, and wonder.<BR>Frequent Herzog collaborator Klaus Kinski portrays the Dracula character with a silent intensity, tingeing the vampire's inhuman monstrosity with a deep sense of pathos and longing. Completing a stellar international cast are Bruno Ganz (a regular in the films of Wim Wenders) and French film star Isabelle Adjani, both giving subtle yet compelling performances as the formerly happy couple who fall prey to Dracula's lust for life and love. From the opening image of rows of openmouthed mummies and the repeated motif of a bat in slow-motion flight to beautiful scenic shots of European mountains and beaches, NOSFERATU is a visually stunning film, presenting visual tableaus taken directly from the original as well as those of Herzog's invention. The extreme stylization of the film recalls Herzog's similarly hypnotic and haunting film HEART OF GLASS--creating a wholly original film, that despite its differences maintains a strict and loving faithfulness to the original.
Movie/TV TitleNosferatu
ComposerCharles Gounod, Florian Fricke, Richard Wagner, Popol Vuh
ScreenwriterWerner Herzog
EditorBeate Mainka-Jellinghaus