Year: 1979
Duration: 01:46:53
Directed by: Werner Herzog
Actors: Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Adjani, Bruno Ganz
Language: English | English Subtitles | German | Romany
Country: West Germany | France
Also known as: Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht, Nosferatu the Vampyre, Nosferatu, vampiro de la noche, Νοσφεράτου: Ο Δράκουλας της Νύχτας, Nosferatu, Nosferatu – Fantom noci, Nosferatu – Il principe della notte, Nosferatu – O Vampiro da Noite, Nosferatu – nattens vampyr, Nosferatu – vampyren, Nosferatu – wampir, Nosferatu – yön valtias, Nosferatu, a vámpír, Nosferatu, az éjszaka fantomja, Nosferatu, fantôme de la nuit, Nosferatu, o Drakoulas tis nyhtas, Nosferatu, o Fantasma da Noite, Nosferatu: Nattens vampyr, Nosferatu: Phantom of the Night, Nosferatu: To fantasma tis nyhtas, Nosferatu: el vampiro, To sperma tou vrykolaka
Description: Estate agent Jonathan Harker is sent to Transylvania to the castle of Count Dracula, who expressed a desire to buy a mansion in Germany. Upon arrival at the castle of Count, Harker sign all the necessary papers, but accidentally drops a locket with a photo of his young wife Lucy.
Review: This refined opus, the award is significant at the International Film Festival in West Berlin just for the work of the artist Henning von Gierke, German director Werner Herzog, like a diligent copyist tried to remove the tracing paper with a masterpiece of the silent era – “Nosferatu, Symphony of Horror” by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau. He is focused on old film shot for 56 years before that, and not on the literary source of Bram Stoker, written at the end of the XIX century (so unlike the later version of Francis Ford Coppola’s film adaptation of Herzog would have to, for the sake of justice, to be called “Friedrich Murnau’s Nosferatu”).
The dramatic, graphic style of German Expressionism, though supplemented very picturesque views of the Carpathian castle etched or Dutch town (here Werner Herzog was again required the operator Jörg Schmidt-Raytvayn that works like a queue with Thomas Mauch and over juicier in terms of colors on-screen projects This director), interested him in the first place. But despite the presence of the brilliant actor Klaus Kinski (he also filmed in Vampire in Venice and Jack the Ripper), who is the image of the vampire Dracula inexpressibly sweet and hopelessly beautiful drinks blood from the neck of a delightful Isabelle Adjani, who played his innocent victim Lucy Harker, a mystical secret of high art subtly disappears, as if a dark purple night with the first glimpses of the golden dawn.
Review #2: Decent work of early works by German director Werner Herzog, who, according to many critics, is very close in structure and style of the original tape of Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau’s “Nosferatu, Symphony of Horror”, but more remarkable – she does not she concedes.
Shortcomings in the work of Werner Herzog, based on current laws already in the cinema, you can find enough. For example, the static game is almost all the actors, which is more like a theater play, because playing in the movie – it’s not just at the right time to voice their sentences, and more and convey emotions. With this in the film “Nosferatu: Phantom of the Night” really quite modest somehow, in addition to a great make-up, the main characters of the film clearly lacks even the ability to be presentable and aesthetic front of the camera.
You can also pull up to the shortcomings of many episodes that look not only illogical and implausible even in the picture. But any of the drawbacks of Werner Herzog equates to absolute zero in comparison with the atmosphere that prevails throughout the film. I have to admit that such a gloomy tone and absorbing atmosphere achieved in this genre ever succeeded in not many directors. Also, in the film “Nosferatu: The ghost of the night” sounds, perhaps, the best soundtrack of all the paintings dedicated to the vampire theme.
I believe that any vampire movie in the first place should have the qualities possessed by Werner Herzog tape. Therefore, any shortcoming of this film can be seen as an outdated method of staging art paintings. And finally, it is amazing as a director in the ranking of his work «PG» managed to sow so believable fear and terror that the picture “Nosferatu: The ghost of the night,” undoubtedly possesses.
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One of the best. Not much else to say. If you haven’t seen it, and you are a vampire fan…do yourself a favor, and get the special edition dvd set. You will thank yourself for it later.