Film.com's FREE movie of the week is "Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror." This 1922 classic of cinema based on Bram Stoker's "Dracula" (but with names changed) directed by F.W. Murnau and starring Max Schrek in one of films most famous and frightening make-up jobs.
Messaoud, a young Arab boy, is placed in a foster family in rural France at the age of nine. The year is 1961 and Algeria is in the midst of revolution. Gisele, his adoptive mother, by fear of the anti-Arab sentiment that has broken out in the region, decides to change the child's identity. Messaoud is renamed Michel, "Michou". Gisele also hides the truth from her own husband, Georges, a retired soldier. Little by little, things get complicated between Georges, Gisele and Michou.
