Saturday, November 26

Nosferatu (1922)


Nosferatu is the movie we almost never watched...

An unauthorized production of Bram Stoker's work (his legal heirs didn't give their permission), so the names had to be changed. But this wasn't enough: The widow of Bram Stoker won two lawsuits (1924 and 1929) in which she demanded the destruction of all copies of the movie, happily however, copies of it were already too widespread to destroy them all.

Later, the Universal studios could break her resistance against this movie. Count Orlok's move to Wisburg (Obviously the real "Wismar") brings the plague traceable to his dealings with the Realtor Thomas Hutter, and the Count's obsession with Hutter's wife, Ellen the only one with the power to end the evil. F.W. Murnau's masterpiece exists for us to enjoy today.

Watch the trailer!



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