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Release Date: Dec 29, 2000
Running Time: 93 mins. (V)
Country Of Origin: United States
Country Of Origin: United Kingdom
Country Of Origin: Luxembourg
synopsis
A fictionalized account of the making of director F. W. Murnau's classic silent horror film "Nosferatu" (Germany/1922) and Murnau's obsession with lending the film authenticity. Without alerting the rest of his cast, director Murnau finds an actual vampire to take on the name of actor Max Schreck and play the king of the undead.
cast + crew
Director
Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
Max Schreck--'Count Orlok'
Fritz Arno Wagner--Cameraman
Henrick Galeen--The Writer
Gustav von Wangenheim--'Hutter'
Albin Grau--Producer/Art Director
Greta Schroder--'Ellen'
Wolfgang Muller--Cameraman
Innkeeper's Wife
one of Murnau's Crew
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reviews
December 20, 2000
Shadow of the Vampire, the first film produced by Nicolas Cage, is a shockingly funny spellbinder with a plum part that Cage - talk about shocks - handed to Willem Dafoe instead of himself. Dafoe, who has never been better, bites into this Oscar-bait role with an uncanny knack for blending mirth and menace. Here are the facts: In 1921, German director F.W. Murnau cast unknown actor Max Schreck to portray the undead Count Orlock in what would become the silent-film classic Nosferatu. As…
The making of 1922's ''Nosferatu,'' cinema's first vampire film, is chronicled in this finely detailed and highly amusing homage. Story Great German film director F.W. Murnau (John Malkovich) embarks on a journey to adapt Bram Stoker's ''Dracula'' to the screen on location in Eastern Europe. With an eccentric cast and crew under his wing, the consumed Murnau will stop at nothing to achieve his vision. He hires an unknown actor, Max Schreck (Willem Dafoe), to portray the title role. The ultimate…
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