Where to watch Nosferatu (1922)
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A mysterious nobleman summons a happily married real estate agent to an isolated castle in the Transylvanian mountains to finalize a property deal. As the agent encounters unsettling signs of danger, the journey draws an ominous supernatural threat toward his home and town.
Cast: Gustav von Wangenheim, Max Schreck, Greta Schröder, Georg H. Schnell, Ruth Landshoff, Gustav Botz, Alexander Granach, John Gottowt, Max Nemetz, Wolfgang Heinz, Albert Venohr, Eric van Viele
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Trivia & production notes
- Prana Film, the studio that produced Nosferatu, was founded in 1921 by occultist artist Albin Grau and existed only long enough to make this one film before going bankrupt shortly after its release.
- Albin Grau designed the film's sets, costumes, makeup, and created the cryptic contract between Count Orlok and Knock filled with Enochian, hermetic, and alchemical symbols.
- Screenwriter Henrik Galeen added the idea of the vampire bringing plague to the town via rats on a ship, which did not appear in the original Dracula novel.
- Conrad Veidt was offered the role of Count Orlok but declined due to scheduling conflicts, leading to then-unknown actor Max Schreck being cast instead.
- Director F.W. Murnau completely rewrote 12 pages of the script for the film's climax, in which Ellen sacrifices herself and the vampire dies in sunlight—a concept that does not appear in either Stoker's novel or Galeen's original screenplay.
- Budget constraints meant cinematographer Fritz Arno Wagner had only one camera available, resulting in just a single original negative of the film.
- The film was shot on location across multiple German cities and Slovakia, with Orava Castle serving as Count Orlok's Transylvanian castle and the abandoned Salzspeicher in Lübeck standing in as his Wisburg manor.
- Hans Erdmann composed the original score for Nosferatu's Berlin premiere, but most of it was lost, leaving only a partial adapted suite.
- Multiple composers have since created new scores for the film, including James Bernard, Type O Negative, and Dutch composer Jozef van Wissem, whose 2022 score progresses from lute solos to distorted sounds and dense slow death metal.
- Restoration efforts over decades created translation complications, as the film's intertitles were translated multiple times across different languages before English versions were distributed.
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