Nosferatu

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Call Number: Blu-ray Silent-Film Nosferatu
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Malletts Creek Branch, Traverwood Branch

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Title from container.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1922.
Special features: Hans Erdmann's original 1922 score, in 5.1 Surround or 2.0 Stereo; The language of shadows (2007), a 52-minute documentary on F.W. Murnau's early career and the making of Nosferatu ; 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) ; image gallery.
Based on the novel, Dracula, by Bram Stoker.
Disc 1. Nosferatu with English intertitles ; The language of shadows ; Special feature -- Disc 2. Nosferatu with original German intertitles.
Max Schreck, Greta Schroder, Ruth Landshoff, Gustav Von Wangenheim, Alexander Granach, George H. Schnell.
Music performers, Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra ; conductor, Berndt Heller.
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.
Blu-ray; full screen (1.33:1) presentation; requires Blu-ray player.
Newly mastered in HD from the archival 35mm restoration by the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung.
Contents: Dracula.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Spooky Atmospherics submitted by Meginator on August 27, 2022, 6:55pm This classic silent horror film, loosely based on Bram Stoker’s Dracula, has its long shadows and its influence is still apparent in contemporary filmmaking. The lack of diegetic sound, and the resulting reliance on intertitles and a well-designed orchestral soundtrack, adds a layer of uncanny remove that makes the film effectively creepy and unsettling even in the modern era (particularly for viewers who are not used to watching films from this era). The film does have an unsettling undercurrent of antisemitism in the visual presentation of the two main villains, but is otherwise not terribly offensive to modern sensibilities; its violence lies in implication rather than in direct representations, and is all the more frightening for it. This is a great film for anyone interested in the history of the horror genre.