Nosferatu : a symphony of horror /
The quintessential silent vampire film, crafted by legendary German director F. W. Murnau. Rather than depicting Dracula as a shape-shifting monster or debonair gentleman, Murnau's Graf Orlok is a nightmarish, spidery creature of bulbous head and taloned claws, perhaps the most genuinely distur...
| Uniform Title: | Nosferatu (Motion picture : 1922) |
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| Format: | Video Blu-ray Disc |
| Language: | No linguistic content |
| Language Notes: | Silent dialogue; German or English subtitles. |
| Edition: | Deluxe remastered edition. |
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| Summary: | The quintessential silent vampire film, crafted by legendary German director F. W. Murnau. Rather than depicting Dracula as a shape-shifting monster or debonair gentleman, Murnau's Graf Orlok is a nightmarish, spidery creature of bulbous head and taloned claws, perhaps the most genuinely disturbing incarnation of vampirism yet envisioned. Features two versions of the film, the original German intertitles (with optional English subtitles) or English intertitles. |
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| Item Description: | Originally produced as a motion picture in 1922. Based on the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker; freely adapted by Henrik Galeen. Special features include: 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); The language of shadows: the early years and Nosferatu (52-minute documentary by Luciano Berriatâua); image gallery. Videorecording. |
| Physical Description: | 2 videodiscs (95 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Format: | Blu-ray; requires Blu-ray player. |
| Production Credits: | Director of photography, Fritz Arno Wagner ; art director, Albin Grau ; music, Timothy Howard ; costumes, Albin Grau. |