Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens

Bout is a clerk of a real estate company in Bremen. The boss sent him to see the Count of Nosferatu in a house deal in the castle of Kappaschion. Before leaving, he entrusted his wife to his friend Martin. , Finally came to a hotel near the castle, they were shocked when they learned that he was going to the castle, he went for business. In the castle, he was received by the strange-looking earl. The earl appeared in the evening, and his disappearance in the morning made Bout suspicious. He decided to find out and finally found that the earl was a vampire with human blood. The earl had also set off for Germany. He put his coffin on the ship bound for Bremen, and spread the plague all the way to the port. The ship was empty. The earl lived in the house he ordered. The arrival of the devil made the small town plague raging. Facing more and more people dying, Bout’s wife accidentally saw the solution, so they decided to fight Nosferatu, Ellen Trying to lure the earl to the bait, she prolonged the time until the rooster announced that justice finally defeated evil, the earl turned into smoke in the sun, and the town was saved.
Mornau used a very realistic approach to the film. Not only did he abandon the expressionist image of "Dr. Caligari", he even replaced the studio setting with a real street scene. But Mornau was still cold when creating a gloomy atmosphere. It's chilling. The old castle on the mountain was looming in the thick fog, and the zombies slowly swept across the deck on the bumpy boat, and so on. The atmosphere of many natural environments is covered with a mysterious color under the treatment of Murnau. Murnau experimented with deep-focus photography in this film, showing infinite potential in image composition. This film is considered to be the most poetic horror film, and in terms of visual imagination, it surpasses all later Drogula films. In contrast, the 1931 "Dracula" (also translated as "Vampire") (Dracula) is like a Disney adaptation. The male protagonist's dehumanized shape (pointed ears, long nails, skull-like face) has become a classic. Due to the failure to reach an agreement with the original author’s widow, Drogula’s name is not used in the film. The film implies a threat to the middle class and the scientific rationality they believe in. "Shadow of the Vampire" (2000) is a hypothesis about the story behind the filming. The 1979 German remake was directed by Herzog.

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