Nosferatu (Motion picture) Sprache der Schatten. Language of shadows.
Notes:
Title from container. Based on the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker, adapted by Henrik Galeen. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1922. "Reconstruction of Hans Erdmann's original 1921 score by Berndt Heller. Performed by the Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra"--Container. Special features (disc 2): Die Sprache der Schatten = The language of shadows (52-minute documentary by Luciano Berriatúa); Nosferatu : an historic film meets digital restoration (3-minute documentary); 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); scene comparisons; photo gallery. Max Schreck, Gustav von Wangenheim, Alexander Granach, Greta Schroeder, Ruth Landshoff.
Contents:
[disc 1]. Nosferatu with original German intertitles -- [disc 2]. Nosferatu with English intertitles ;The language of shadows ; special features.
Summary:
The first film version of Bram Stoker's Dracula. Count Orlok leaves his castle in the Carpathians and travels by ship to Bremen, bringing coffins filled with dirt and plague rats. Rather than depict Dracula as a shape-shifting monster or debonair gentleman, Murnau's Graf Orlok is a nightmarish, spidery creature with a bulbous head and taloned claws.
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