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Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (English title: Nosferatu the Vampyre) is a 1979 film by the German director Werner Herzog. It starred Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Adjani and Bruno Ganz. The French artist and writer Roland Topor appears as an unhinged, giggling Renfield.

The film is a remake of F. W. Murnau's 1922 silent film Nosferatu
. Klaus Kinski's Dracula make-up is a faithful recreation of Max Schreck's ratlike appearance, but Herzog's film emphasises the vampire's tragic loneliness and pathos as well as the horror of his predatory appetites and the plague he brings in his wake. Herzog's visuals are as lush and lyrical as Murnau's, and there are also some surprising moments of comedy: Dracula's drawing room has a cuckoo clock made from a skull, and far from exulting in his power, the vampire responds to Renfield's doggy fawning by wearily brushing him away.

Filmed on a shoestring budget (as was common for German films during the 1970s), Herzog's Nosferatu was a critical success, considered by many to be a faithful homage to Murnau's original film.

Herzog filmed two versions of the movie simultaneously, one in German and one in English. The actors spoke their own lines in English, meaning that their own voices are included in the English version of the film; they are not dubbed over by voice actors. Since by the time of Herzog's film the original Bram Stoker novel had gone into the public domain, Herzog used the character names from the novel, something Murnau could not do.

Herzog could not film in Bremen (where the original Murnau film was shot) so he located production in Delft, the Netherlands. Parts of the film were shot in nearby Schiedam, after Delft authorities refused to allow Herzog to release 11,000 rats (white ones painted grey).

An extract from Popol Vuh's eerie musical score was used by Kate Bush in the song "Hello Earth" on her 1985 album Hounds of Love.

Trivia

The mummies at the beginning of the movie are real and from Guanajuato Mummy Museum in Mexico

Category:German films Category:Horror films Category:1979 films Category:Films directed by Werner Herzog Category:Nosferatu Category:vampires in film and television Category:Film remakes

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