Nosferatu: Phantom of the Night
Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht
Werner Herzog
In the 19th century, Jonathan Harker goes to Transylvania to sell a house to Count Dracula. On the way, locals try to discourage him. Once at the castle he is held prisoner by the Count, who has gone to spread plague in Harker's home town ...
With : Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Adjani, Bruno Ganz, Roland Topor
Screenplay : Werner Herzog (d'après le roman Dracula de Bram Stoker )
Image : Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein
Sound : Harald Maury
Decors : Henning Von Gierke, Ulrich Bergfelder
Editing : Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus
Screenplay : Werner Herzog (d'après le roman Dracula de Bram Stoker )
Image : Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein
Sound : Harald Maury
Decors : Henning Von Gierke, Ulrich Bergfelder
Editing : Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus
Production : Werner Herzog Filmproduktion, Gaumont
Distribution: Gaumont
Distribution: Gaumont
Werner Herzog gives us a different and personal version of the famous myth of Nosferatu, 56 years after Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau. "Murnau made the most visionary of all German films. A premonitory film, which prophesied the rise of Nazism showing the invasion of Germany by Dracula and plague-infected rats" (Werner Herzog). In the 1979 version, Bruno Ganz and Isabelle Adjani are victims of Nosferatu, embodied by Klaus Kinski. "What interested me in this wolf-child was what remained human in him despite everything" (Werner Herzog). Herzog sees Nosferatu less as the incarnation of the demon as the victim of fate: never dying. He shows a man who is afraid, who is suffering from solitude and lovelessness.