Max Schreck, Greta Schroeder, Ruth Landshoff, Gustav Von Wangenheim, Alexander Granach, George H. Schnell. Music performers, Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra ; conductor, Berndt Heller. Based on the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. Hans Erdmann's original 1922 score, in 5.1 Surround or 2.0 Stereo Newly mastered in HD from the archival 35mm restoration by the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung. Special features: 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.
Contents:
disc 1. Feature film with English intertitles -- disc 2. Feature film with German intertitles.
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.
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