Nosferatu the Vampyre
A promotional film poster for Nosferatu The Vampyre
Directed by	Werner Herzog
Produced by	Michael Gruskoff Werner Herzog Walter Saxer Daniel Toscan du Plantier
Written by	Werner Herzog Bram Stoker (novel)
Starring	Klaus Kinski Isabelle Adjani Bruno Ganz
Music by	Popol Vuh
Cinematography	Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein
Editing by	Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus
Distributed by	Twentieth Century Fox
Release date(s)	October 5, 1979
Running time	107 min.
Country	West Germany  France
Language	German English
Budget	2.5 million DEM
Followed by	Nosferatu in Venice
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Nosferatu the Vampyre (ger. Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht, eng. Nosferatu: Phantom of the Night) is a 1979 West German horror film, set primarily in 19th Century Wismar, Germany and Transylvania, Romania. Written and directed by Werner Herzog, Nosferatu the Vampyre stars Klaus Kinski as Count Dracula, Isabelle Adjani as Lucy Harker and Bruno Ganz as Jonathan Harker. The film also features French artist-writer Roland Topor as Renfield. Although the production is technically an adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula, the film was actually conceived as a stylistic remake of the 1922 German Dracula adaptation, Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Werner Herzog (born Werner Stipetić on September 5, 1942) is a critically and internationally acclaimed German film director, screenwriter, actor, and opera director. ... 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Herzog's production of Nosferatu the Vampyre was warmly received by critics and filmgoers alike, enjoying a comfortable degree of commercial success.^[1] The film also marks the second of five legendary collaborations between director Werner Herzog and actor Klaus Kinski,^[2] immediately followed by 1979's Woyzeck. Also: 1979 by Smashing Pumpkins. ... Woyzeck is a 1979 film by the German director Werner Herzog that stars Klaus Kinski and Eva Mattes. ...

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Plot

Jonathan Hhutter (Bruno Ganz) is an estate agent in Wismar, Germany. His boss, Renfield (Roland Topor), informs him that a nobleman named Count Dracula wishes to buy a property in Wismar, and assigns Harker to visit the count and complete the lucrative deal. Leaving his young wife Lucy (Isabelle Adjani) behind in Wismar, Harker travels for four weeks to Transsylvania, Romania, to the castle of Count Dracula. He brings with him the deeds and documents needed to sell the house to the Count. Estate agent is a United Kingdom term roughly synonymous in the United States with the term real estate broker, a business that arranges the selling, renting or management of homes, land and other buildings. ... Dwight Fry as Renfield in the 1931 adaptation of Dracula. ... Count Dracula is a fictional character, the titular antagonist of Bram Stokers 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula. ...

On his journey, Jonathan stops at a village, where locals warn him of the castle's 'evil', pleading for him to stay clear of the accursed castle, providing him with details of vampirism. But Harker ignores the villagers' pleas as wild superstition, and continues his journey unassisted. Harker arrives at Dracula's castle, where he meets the Count (Klaus Kinski). The mysterious nobleman is a strange, ancient, almost rodent-like man, with large ears, pale skin, sharp teeth and long fingernails. However, Dracula is very accommodating, and offers Jonathan his full hospitality. For other uses, see Superstition (disambiguation). ... Suborders Sciuromorpha Castorimorpha Myomorpha Anomaluromorpha Hystricomorpha Rodentia is an order of mammals also known as rodents. ...

The lonely Count is enchanted by a small portrait of Jonathan's wife, bucy, and immediately agrees to purchase the Wismar property, especially with the knowledge that he and Lucy would become neighbours. As Jonathan's visit progresses, he is haunted at night by a number of dream-like encounters with the vampiric Count. Simultaneously, in Wismar, Lucy is tormented by night terrors, plagued by images of impending doom. Additionally, Renfield is committed to an asylum after biting a cow, apparently having lapsed into a psychosis. Philip Burne-Jones, The Vampire, 1897 Vampires are mythological or folkloric beings that subsist on human and/or animal lifeforce. ... A psychiatric hospital (also called, at various places and times, mental hospital or mental ward, historically often asylum, lunatic asylum, or madhouse), is a hospital specialising in the treatment of persons with mental illness. ... Psychosis is a generic psychiatric term for a mental state often described as involving a loss of contact with reality. Stedmans Medical Dictionary defines psychosis as a severe mental disorder, with or without organic damage, characterized by derangement of personality and loss of contact with reality and causing deterioration...

Klaus Kinski as Count Dracula.

To Harker's horror, he finds the Count asleep in a coffin, confirming for him that Dracula is indeed a vampire. At night, Dracula leaves for Wismar, taking with him a number of coffins, filled with the cursed earth that he needs for his vampiric rest. Harker finds that he is locked in the castle, and attempts to escape through a window with a makeshift rope. The rope, fashioned from bedsheets, is not long enough, and Jonathan falls, severely injuring himself. He awakes in a hosptial, raving about 'black coffins' to doctors, who then assume that the sickness is affecting his mind. Werner Herzog - Nosferatu Taken from www. ... Werner Herzog - Nosferatu Taken from www. ... Klaus Kinski. ...

Meanwhile, Dracula and his coffins travel to Wismar by boat. The crew systematically die or disappear at the hand of the vampire, but with the belief that they are afflicted with plague. The ghost ship arrives at Wismar with its mysterious cargo, where doctors - including Van Helsing (Walter Ladengast) - investigate the strange fate of the ship. They discover a log that mentions their perceived affliction with plague. In turn, Wismar is flooded with rats from the ship. Dracula arrives in Wismar with his coffins, and death spreads rapidly throughout the town. The bubonic plague or bubonic fever is the best-known variant of the deadly infectious disease caused by the enterobacteria Yersinia pestis. ... Helsing and Van Helsing redirect here. ... A ships log is a record of data relating to a ship or submarine, such as weather conditions, crew complement or what ports were docked at and when. ...

When Jonathan is finally transported home, he is desperately ill, and does not appear to recognise his wife, Lucy. Lucy later has an encounter with the lonely Count Dracula. Weary and unable to die, he demands some of the love that she gave so freely to Jonathan. Much to Dracula's dismay, she refuses, and he leaves her room with disgust.

Now aware that something other than plague is responsible for the death that has beset her once-peaceful town, Lucy desperately tries to convince the town people, but they are skeptical and uninterested. She finds that she can vanquish Dracula's evil by distracting him at dawn, but at the expense of her own life. She lures the Count to her bedroom, where he proceeds to drink her blood. An Anopheles stephensi mosquito obtaining a blood meal from a human host through its pointed proboscis. ...

In accordance with the mythology, Lucy's beauty and purity distract Dracula from the call of the cockerel, and he is killed by the first light of the day. Van Helsing arrives to discover Lucy, dead but victorious. He then finishes the Count off with a stake through the heart. In a final, chilling twist, Jonathan Harker awakes from his sickness, a vampire. He is last seen travelling away on horseback, enigmatically stating that he has much to do.

Deviations from the novel

This list is not exhaustive, but intended to convey a sense of the differences between the film and the novel: This article is about motion pictures. ... This article is about the literary concept. ...

• The setting is shifted to circa 1838 Wismar.
• Mina Harker becomes Lucy Harker.
• The characters of Arthur Holmwood and Quincey Morris are omitted.
• Renfield is Harker's employer.
• Dracula brings with him the plague and ravages the city.
• Dracula makes Jonathan Harker a vampire.
• Dracula does not shapeshift.
• Much is made of a kind of psychic connection between Lucy and Harker/Dracula.
• Dracula must sleep by day.
• Dracula is killed by Lucy; she lures him to feed upon her until sunrise, which is fatal to him.
• Van Helsing is arrested at the end, for having driven a stake through (the already deceased) Dracula's heart.

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Background/Production

Remake

While Nosferatu the Vampyre's basic story is derived from Bram Stoker's novel Dracula, director Werner Herzog made the 1979 film primarily as an homage remake of F. W. Murnau's seminal 1922 silent film, Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens, which differs somewhat from Stoker's original work. The makers of the 1922 film could not obtain the rights for a film adaptation of Dracula, so they changed a number of minor details and character names in an unsuccessful attempt to avoid copyright infringement on the intellectual property owned (at the time) by Stoker's widow. A lawsuit was filed, resulting in an order for the destruction of all prints of the film. Fortunately, some prints survived, and were restored after Florence Stoker had died and the copyright had expired.^[3] Abraham Bram Stoker (November 8, 1847 – April 20, 1912) was an Irish writer, best remembered as the author of the influential horror novel Dracula. ... Dracula is an 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, featuring as its primary antagonist the vampire Count Dracula. ... Werner Herzog (born Werner Stipetić on September 5, 1942) is a critically and internationally acclaimed German film director, screenwriter, actor, and opera director. ... Also: 1979 by Smashing Pumpkins. ... F W Murnau Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau (December 28, 1888 - March 11, 1931) was one of the most influential directors of the silent film era. ... A seminal work [semen = seed (from the Latin seminalis)] is a work from which other works come--it is an engendering work which is so important in its ideas or technique that other people take these up and create new works too. ... Year 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... A silent film is a film which has no accompanying soundtrack. ... Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (Nosferatu, a Symphony of Horror) is a German Expressionist film by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, starring Max Schreck as the vampire Count Orlok. ... Dracula is an 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, featuring as its primary antagonist the vampire Count Dracula. ... The Cathach of St. ... For the 2006 film, see Intellectual Property (film). ... Florence Balcombe (July 17, 1858 - May 25, 1937) was the wife of Bram Stoker whom she married in 1878. ...

Herzog considers Murnau's Nosferatu to be the greatest film ever to come out of Germany,^[4] and was keen to make his own version of the film, with the versatile Klaus Kinski in the leading role. In 1979, at a time when the copyright for Dracula had entered the public domain, Herzog proceeded with his updated version of the classic German film, which could now include the original character names. Strangely, however, Jonathan Harker's wife was named 'Lucy Harker', even though her name was Mina in the original novel, and a woman named 'Lucy' was a friend of Mina's. In Herzog's production, the reverse is true. Klaus Kinski. ... The public domain comprises the body of all creative works and other knowledge—writing, artwork, music, science, inventions, and others—in which no person or organization has any proprietary interest. ... Wilhelmina Mina Harker is a fictional character of Bram Stokers seminal horror novel Dracula. ... Dracula is an 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, featuring as its primary antagonist the vampire Count Dracula. ...

Production

Nosferatu the Vampyre was co-produced by Werner Herzog Filmproduktion, Gaumont and ZDF. As was common for German films during the 1970s, Nosferatu the Vampyre was filmed on a minimal budget, and with a crew of just 16 people. Herzog could not film in Bremen, where the original Murnau film was shot, so he relocated production to Delft, the Netherlands.^[1] Parts of the film were shot in nearby Schiedam, after Delft authorities refused to allow Herzog to release 11,000 rats for a scene in the film.^[4] Dracula's home is represented by locations in the Czech Republic. Werner Herzog Filmproduktion is an independent German film production company, and to a lesser extent, distributor. ... Gaumont Pictures were founded in 1895 by the engineer-turned-inventor, Léon Gaumont (1864-1946). ... Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (Second German Television), ZDF, is a public service German television channel based in Mainz. ... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, also called The Seventies. ... This article is about the city in Germany. ... Coordinates: Country Netherlands Province South Holland Area (2006)  - Municipality 24. ... Nickname: Brandersstad Motto: Official website: http://www. ...

At the request of distributor 20th Century Fox, Herzog produced two versions of the movie simultaneously, to appeal to western audiences. Scenes with dialogue were filmed twice, in German and in English, meaning that the actor's own voices (as opposed to dubbed dialogue by voice actors) could be included in the English version of the film. However, many consider the performances in the German language version to be superior,^[5] as Kinski and Ganz could act more confidently in their native language. In filmmaking, dubbing or looping is the process of recording or replacing voices for a motion picture. ...

Music for the film was performed by the German group Popol Vuh, who have collaborated with Herzog on numerous projects. Popol Vuh is a German cosmic music band founded by pianist and keyboardist Florian Fricke in 1970 together with Holger Trulzsch (percussion) and Frank Fiedler (electronics). ...

Cast

• Klaus Kinski as Count Dracula
• Isabelle Adjani as Lucy Harker
• Bruno Ganz as Jonathan Harker
• Roland Topor as Renfield
• Walter Ladengast as Dr. Van Helsing
• Dan van Husen as Warden
• Jan Groth as Harbormaster
• Carsten Bodinus as Schrader
• Martje Grohmann as Mina
• Rijk de Gooyer as Town official
• Clemens Scheitz as Clerk
• Lo van Hensbergen
• John Leddy as Coachman
• Margiet van Hartingsveld
• Tim Beekman as Coffinbearer

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Reception

The film was released as Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht in the German language edition and Nosferatu the Vampyre in English language edition. It was a critical success, receiving a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 100%. It is considered by many to be a faithful homage to Murnau's original film, significantly updating the original material, and avoiding the danger of being overly derivative.^[6] This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ...

Herzog's production maintained an element of horror, with numerous deaths and a grim outlook, but it features a more expanded plot than many Dracula productions, with a greater emphasis on emotion and the vampire's tragic loneliness.^[7] Graf Orlok (now reverted to Count Dracula) is still a ghastly figure, but he was given a greater sense of pathos; weary, unloved, and doomed to immortality. Count Orlok from Nosferatu Graf Orlok (Count Orlok) is the character performed by Max Schreck in the silent movie Nosferatu. ... Look up Pathos in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Klaus Kinski's Dracula makeup, with black costume, bald head, rat-like teeth and long fingernails, is a suitable imitation of Max Schreck's makeup in the 1922 original. A number of shots in the film are faithful recreations of iconic shots from Murnau's original film, some almost perfectly identical to their black and white counterparts, but this was done as homage rather than imitation.^[8] This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...

Trivia

• The mummies at the beginning of the movie are genuine, and can be found at the Guanajuato Mummy Museum in Mexico.

• Just five days after the completion of Nosferatu, Herzog and Kinski began work on Woyzeck with the same production crew.

• A different recording of "Zinzkaro", the Georgian folk song performed on the film's soundtrack by the Vocal Ensemble Gordela, was used by Kate Bush in the song "Hello Earth" on her 1985 album Hounds of Love.

• A number of white rats were painted grey for inclusion in the film.

• During the shipment to Delft, the rat population of 11,000 exploded to 30,000. After the rat scene was filmed, the mayor of Delft announced to the citizens that any rats brought in would garner the rat-catcher a reward of 5 gulden (2 euros). For three weeks, the children of Delft skipped school to hunt down the valuable rats.

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Notes

1. ^ ^{a b} An Adaptation With Fangs by Garrett Chaffin-Quiray. Kinoeye. Retrieved on 2007-01-30.
2. ^ Frames 'n' friends by Amulya Nagaraj. The Hindu. Retrieved on 2007-01-30.
3. ^ Nosferatu. Silent Movie Monsters. Retrieved on 2007-01-30.
4. ^ ^{a b} Fruits of Anger - Werner Herzog on Nosferatu. hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk. Retrieved on 2007-01-30.
5. ^ Nosferatu. horrordvds.com. Retrieved on 2007-01-30.
6. ^ Nosferatu the Vampyre by John J. Puccio. dvdtown.com. Retrieved on 2007-01-30.
7. ^ Nosferatu The Vampyre by David Keyes. cinemaphile.org. Retrieved on 2007-01-30.
8. ^ Nosferatu: Phantom Der Nacht by Walter Chaw. filmfreakcentral.com. Retrieved on 2007-01-30.

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External links

• Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht at the Internet Movie Database
• New York Review essay on Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht
• Nosferatu the Vampyre at Rotten Tomatoes

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