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Directed by | Werner Herzog |
Screenplay by | Werner Herzog |
Based on | Dracula by Bram Stoker Nosferatu by F. W. Murnau |
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Cinematography | Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein |
Edited by | Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus |
Music by | Popol Vuh |
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Distributed by | 20th Century Fox (Germany)[1] Gaumont Distribution (France) |
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Running time | 107 minutes[2] |
Countries | West Germany France |
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Nosferatu the Vampyre (German: Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht, lit. 'Nosferatu: Phantom of the Night') is a 1979 gothic horror film directed and written by Werner Herzog. The film serves as both a remake[a] of the 1922 film Nosferatu and an adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula.[b] Herzog’s film is set in 19th-century Wismar, Germany and Transylvania. The picture stars Klaus Kinski as Count Dracula, Isabelle Adjani as Lucy Harker, Bruno Ganz as Jonathan Harker, and French artist-writer Roland Topor as Renfield. There are two different versions of the film, one in which the actors speak English, and one in which they speak German.[5]
Herzog's production of Nosferatu was very well received by critics and enjoyed a comfortable degree of commercial success.[6] The film also marks the second of five collaborations between director Herzog and actor Kinski,[7] following 1972's Aguirre, the Wrath of God. The film had 1,000,000 admissions in West Germany and grossed ITL 53,870,000 in Italy.[8] It was also a modest success in Adjani's home country, taking in 933,533 admissions in France.[9]
A novelization of the screenplay was written by Paul Monette and published by both Avon Publishing and Picador in 1979. The 1988 Italian horror film Nosferatu in Venice is a "sequel-in-name-only",[10] again featuring Kinski in the title role.[11]
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