1922 film directed by F. W. Murnau

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Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922)
Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (German: Nosferatu – Eine Symphonie des Grauens) is a 1922 silent German Expressionist vampire film directed by F. W. Murnau from a screenplay by Henrik Galeen. It … Wikipedia
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Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror
Directed by F. W. Murnau
Screenplay by Henrik Galeen
Factsheet
Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror
Directed by F. W. Murnau
Screenplay by Henrik Galeen
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Wikipedia
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Nosferatu - Wikipedia
1 week ago - Nosferatu was produced by Prana Film and is an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula. Various names and other details were changed from the novel, including Count Dracula being renamed Count Orlok. Although those changes are often represented as a defense against copyright ...
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r/blankies on Reddit: Can anyone explain me Nosferatu in relationship to Dracula?
June 22, 2024 -

I never seen any version. From what I understand the original is just a riff on the Dracula book that used another name due to rights issues. But then, why remake Nosferatu instead of just doing another Dracula adaptation? Rights are public domain and the name recognition is much superior. What am I not getting? What makes Herzog or Eggers’ versions a “Nosferatu” story instead of a Dracula one?

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I haven’t seen anything of Eggers’ Nosferatu yet, because I want to go in blind, but i can think of a few reasons to use the Nosferatu name rather than Dracula: Count Orlok (the Dracula expy) has such an iconic, distinctive design that filmmakers want to use it, rather than the more traditionally suave Dracula. Orlok is more of the vampire as atavistic animal than aristocratic foreigner Murnau’s film was already remade by Werner Herzog with Klaus Kinski and Isabelle Adjani in 1978, and that was pretty good. Very moody and ‘gothic’. So maybe Eggers’s film is a reply to that as well as to the original Nosferatu the movie has its own ‘fandom within a fandom’, due to its status as one of the OG horror movies. There’s a whole (hilarious) movie about the making of it, Shadow Of The Vamprie, with John Malkovich and Willem Defoe as Max Shrek
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Nosferatu (1922) was the first feature-length adaptation of Dracula but was unauthorized and found in court to have infringed Stoker’s copyright. The vampire was named Count Orlok instead of Dracula but the film largely follows the plot of the novel and is more faithful than many subsequent official adaptations. Nosferatu (1922) leaned into the horror and created an iconic design for the main antagonist that differs greatly from the novel. Also, victims die rather than become vampires and references plague. The 1979 Herzog film was the first official Dracula movie to reuse the title Nosferatu and officially credit both the 1922 movie and Bram’s novel. Unlike the 1922 movie, the main vampire is called Dracula instead of Orlok but reproduces the design of the 1922 vampire. I believe the 2024 film called Nosferatu is reverting the main antagonist’s name back to Orlock and riffing on the same character design from the 1922 and 1979 films. And as we are in a post-Covid world, the plague aspect of the Nosferatu movies are once again very very relevant.
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Barnes & Noble
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Nosferatu by Jim Shepard, Paperback | Barnes & Noble®
What shadows Jim Shepard's ... filmmaking--is the conflict between his impossibly high ideals and his heartbreaking memories of love betrayed and love lost. From provincial Germany through Hollywood in its early days to the South Seas, Nosferatu charts a life at once artistic, intellectual, and deeply human. Ron Hansen provides an introduction to this Bison Books ...
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Goodreads
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Nosferatu by Jim Shepard | Goodreads
Because this biography is fictional we see all of this through a window of unclear, and perhaps unclean glass. It makes no matter, vampires are never viewed clearly but they are all the more powerful for that, as is this book.
Pages   216
Rating: 3.6 ​ - ​ 22 votes
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BBC
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Nosferatu: The Shadowy Tale that Cannot Die - BBC
January 2, 2025 - The short answer is Dracula, the quintessential 1897 vampire novel by Irishman Bram Stoker. The director of the 1922 Nosferatu changed the name of Stoker's vampire, Dracula, to Orlok.
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ThriftBooks
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Nosferatu: A Novel book by Jim Shepard
April 14, 2005 - Nosferatu is a fictional account of the eminent German film director F.W Murnau. The book takes you on an rollercoaster journey through Murnau's life from his humble childhood beginnings, to his time as a fighter pilot during World War I, his ...
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The Book Of Nosferatu: A Graphic Novel - BackerKit
It’s a slice out of Nosferatu’s life. A moment. He takes a woman, and her husband pursues her, coming closer to this darkness—this death—and seeing himself transform in the process. You can’t follow Orlock, you can’t be like him…without paying a price. That’s what this story is all about. ... Here's a link to download the PDF https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/t6ycc641dqxp92qq7vlux/Book-of-Nosferatu_Preview.pdf?rlkey=i3m37kxi3c122hgukqp7juy06&dl=0 (More pages will be added throughout the campaign!)
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Google Books
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Nosferatu: A Novel - Jim Shepard - Google Books
From this prodigiously talented writer, a stunningly original "life" of F. W. Murnau, the German director. In the history of cinema, this novel's protagonist and subject ranks as a founding father, not least for his legendary horror film, Nosferatu.
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Goodreads
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Nosferatu the Vampire by Paul Monette | Goodreads
Finally having seen the flick --which ... just as is the film. The only author who has terrified me is John Saul, but Nosferatu is NOT that kind of book....
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Pages   172
Rating: 3.7 ​ - ​ 19 votes
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ScreenRant
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Nosferatu Is Including 1 Key Detail From The Original Book (That I Find Perfectly Horrifying)
August 4, 2024 - Including Renfield's animal obsession in 2024's Nosferatu marks a shift in the archetype, making the character less sympathetic. One key detail from the original Dracula novel is being included in 2024's Nosferatu, a fact that is perfectly horrifying to me. When I first read Bram Stoker's Dracula, what really struck me was the detailed and atmospheric elements of the horror.
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University of Nebraska Press
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Nosferatu - Nebraska Press
August 6, 2024 - What shadows Jim Shepard’s Murnau—through the airfields of the Great War to Berlin in the twenties and to the virtual invention of filmmaking—is the conflict between his impossibly high ideals and his heartbreaking memories of love betrayed and love lost. From provincial Germany through Hollywood in its early days to the South Seas, Nosferatu charts a life at once artistic, intellectual, and deeply human. Ron Hansen provides an introduction to this Bison Books edition.
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Chevalier's Books
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Nosferatu: A Novel | Chevalier's Books
"Jim Shepard wrote a fictional biography of F. W. Murnau, a strange breed of man who made compelling art from life and whose life, it turns out, makes compelling art."—Small Spiral Notebook "Shepard has so thoroughly mastered the idiom and feel of the period that we seem to be inside a young ...
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HISTORY
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How 'Nosferatu' Reinvented the Vampire
One of the reasons she wanted to kill Nosferatu was because she thought it threatened her ability to sell the rights to her late husband’s most successful novel. In 1924, she sold the stage adaptation rights to Hamilton Deane, who wrote a play based on the book.
Published   May 28, 2025
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IGN
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Nosferatu Is a Reminder That Hollywood Has Never Made a Great Version of Bram Stoker’s Book - IGN
December 20, 2024 - However, despite all the praise for the film’s performances, cinematography, and period set design, Nosferatu continues the tradition of adaptations and reworkings of the original Dracula novel messing up significant elements of the source material. This problem is so endemic that certain aspects of the book have been completely overwritten in the popular imagination by adaptational changes being echoed in version after version over the decades.
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Nosferatu: Comparing the Book to the Movie - YouTube
Nosferatu (1922) both honors and diverges from Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897), adapting the classic tale into a hauntingly unique vampire story. While the film...
Published   January 15, 2025
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Graywolf Press
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Nosferatu | Graywolf Press
Written for the neoromantic composer Alva Henderson, the opera Nosferatu has been triumphantly showcased around the U.S. and will soon be staged in New York. Giogia's thrilling version of the vampire myth brings forth the terror of Nosferatu, "the undead," as seen through the eyes of the heroine, ...