When was nosferatu filmed

It was partly in homage. And I suspect it was above all because he had the resource of Klaus Kinski. He had first laid eyes on Kinski when he was still a boy, and the fierce-eyed actor lived in the same building.

To say of someone that they were born to play a vampire is a strange compliment, but if you will compare the two versions of Nosferatu you might agree with me that only Kinski could have equaled or rivaled Max Schreck 's performance. Opposite him Herzog cast Isabelle Adjani, a French beauty who is used here not only for her facial perfection but for her curious quality of seeming to exist on an ethereal plane. Adjani does not easily play ordinary women.

Her skin always seems unusually white and smooth, as is porcelain. Here she provides a pure object for Dracula's fangs. The other masterstroke of casting is Roland Topor, as the Bremen realtor. Topor did a fair amount of acting, but was principally an author and artist, the co-founder of the Panic Movement with Alejandro Jodorowsky's " El Topo ". Herzog recalls watching a trivial German TV show on which Topor's weird high-pitched giggle seemed to evoke perfect madness.

Here it is used to suggest the unwholesome nature of his relationship with Dracula. Bruno Ganz makes an ideal Harker because he sidesteps any temptation to play a hero, and plays a devoted husband who naively dismisses alarming warnings.

He is loving, then resolute, then uncertain, then fearful, then desperate, and finally mad -- lost. Although I don't believe "Nosferatu" had a particularly large budget, its historical detail looks unfaked and convincing.

Herzog travels much in search of arresting imagery; the mummies at the start are from Mexico, the mountains are the Carpathian, the castles and castle ruins are in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Germany, and I believe the city with canals is in the Netherlands.

That said, Herzog told me that some shots were set up to use the same locations that Murnau used, and often had similar compositions. Once I asked him why he took a crew far into the South American rain forests to shoot "Aguirre" and "Fitzcarraldo," and he said he believed in "the voodoo of locations.

The actors would project a different energy if they knew they truly were buried in a wilderness. We would be able to sense it. In the same spirit, I suppose, Kinski standing where Murnau's actor Max Schreck stood would generate an energy. This film is haunted by the earlier one. I wonder if Kinski himself believed this was a role he was born to play.

Famously temperamental, his emotions on a hair trigger, he endured four hours of makeup daily without complaining. Matrose as 2. Eric van Viele Matrose 2 as Matrose 2. Guido Herzfeld Wirt as Wirt uncredited. Hans Lanser-Rudolf A magistrate as A magistrate uncredited. Josef Sareny Head coachman as Head coachman uncredited. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Wisbourg, Germany based estate agent Knock dispatches his associate, Hutter, to Count Orlok's castle in Transylvania as the Count wants to purchase an isolated house in Wisbourg.

They plan on selling him the one across the way from Hutter's own home. Hutter leaves his innocent wife, Ellen, with some friends while he is away. Hutter's trek is an unusual one, with many locals not wanting to take him near the castle where strange events have been occurring.

Once at the castle, Hutter does manage to sell the Count the house, but he also notices and feels unusual occurrences, primarily feeling like there is a dark shadow hanging over him, even in the daytime when the Count is unusually asleep. Hutter eventually sees the Count's sleeping chamber in a crypt, and based on a book he has recently read, believes the Count is really a vampire or Nosferatu. While Hutter is trapped in the castle, the Count, hiding in a shipment of coffins, makes his way to Wisbourg, causing death along his way, which most attribute to the plague.

Hutter himself tries to rush home to save his town and most importantly save Ellen from Nosferatu's imminent arrival. In Wisbourg, Ellen can feel the impending darkness as Nosferatu gets closer. But she learns that a sinless woman can sacrifice herself to kill the vampire. A thrilling mystery masterpiece - a chilling psycho-drama of blood-lust. Not Rated. Did you know Edit. The wild, spectacular peaks are actually are the High Tatra mountains of northeastern Slovakia.

The gorge, more than metres long and, in places, over 80 metres deep, was designated a natural monument in Outside these times, you can still visit the gorge — at your own risk.

Garmisch-Partenkirchen itself was the site of the Winter Olympic Games, and is now a favourite spot for skiing, snowboarding and hiking. Visit: Czech Republic. In , a German court sided with her and ordered that every copy within that nation be burned. And yet, just like Count Dracula, Nosferatu proved very difficult to kill. Over the next few years, surviving copies made their way to the U.

Thus, the undead picture haunted Florence Stoker until the end of her days. Before she died in , a handful of screenings took place—usually in the United States. Stoker relentlessly tracked down wayward copies of the movie and incinerated those that she got her hands on. But despite her best efforts, Nosferatu lived on in the form of pirated bootlegs. This sort of thing often happens to silent films. When Nosferatu premiered in Berlin, it was accompanied by a live, orchestral score composed by one Hans Erdmann.

No recordings of this original soundtrack are known to exist, although a few restorations have been made. Over the years, Nosferatu has also received several alternative scores spanning a wide array of genres.

Various home video editions of the film now include jazz, electronic, and classical background music. Readers of a certain age might remember Nosferatu not as a classic horror film but as the subject of a particularly strange SpongeBob SquarePants gag.