Iconic German Expressionist adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Nosferatu: Eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922), translated as Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror. Directed by F. W. Murnau and starring Max Schreck.
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I love this film, though I prefer Murnau’s later Herr Tartüff (Moliere adaptation) and Faust, Eine deutsche Volkssage (Goethe adaptation). Werner Herzog’s interpretation – Nosferatu, Phantom der Nacht – of the late gothic tale by Bram Stoker is arguably the cream of the nightmarish crop, with Klaus Kinski as an innocently parasitic Dracula and Popol Vuh providing the breathtaking score.
Murnau’s Nosferatu, could also have been the inspiration for the Holocaust’s No Image (produced by Kingston and Young God, aka Blue Sky Black Death):