Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht

Nosferatu: Phantom of the night is a German vampire film from Werner Herzog's 1979, to the book by Bram Stoker, with Klaus Kinski as Count Dracula.

The film is included in the city centre of Delft, in Schiedam and partly in Transylvania. It is a homage to the film from Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922) directed by F. W. Murnau . There is both a German-language as English-language version of the film: both versions were simultaneously recorded.

Music of the film was created by Popol Vuh and appeared on the albums Brüder des Schattens-Söhne of light and Nosferatu .



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[hide] *1 Story  ==Story[ Edit] == Jonathan Harker, a real estate agent from the fictional German town of Wismar, gets one day a Knock to his boss's command in the Carpathian Mountains to complete the sale of a home with a certain Count Dracula. Harker leaves his wife Lucy behind his friend Hutter before he to his journey begins.
 * 2 Cast
 * 3 differences from the original
 * 4 Trivia
 * 5 awards and nominations

En route stops harker in an Inn, where the residents seem to have great fear for Dracula. Harker finds a book In his room about vampires, that he read for he goes to sleep.He has to walk to the castle the next day there the Coachman refuses to bring him. However, he is soon picked up by the coach of the count. In the Castle, he is greeted by the count, who wears a big hat to hide his horrific appearance. Harker, the sale acts and looks at the offer of to be able to spend the night in the Castle.

The next day Harker wake up in a empty castle with bite marks on his neck. He thinks this of mosquitoes are, until joining the book about vampires recalls. That night falls Dracula Harker to. At the same time Lucy Home gets nightmares and calls Harker name. She is later found in a coma. Her coffins and Dracula withdraws. When Harker explores the Castle later, he discovers Dracula asleep in a coffin. The next morning leaves Dracula to his new home and let Harker behind in the Castle. Harker escapes, but then Dracula has been a big lead.

Back in Wismar show Knock to be present in an establishment. He has developed the strange habit to eat flies. Harker arrives in the village in order to warn everyone for Dracula. It soon becomes the village hit by a few mysterious deaths, which are attributed to the plague. Important air also reads the book about vampires and discovers that a vampire can not from sunlight. She decides to trap Dracula by him to let her house just before the morning.

In the climax of the film succeeds her plan. Dracula forget the rising sun and is felled by the sunlight. Meanwhile, Harker changed into a vampire. ==Division Of Roles[ Edit] == ==Differences with the original<span class="mw-editsection" len="366" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Between the original film from 1922 and this version from 1979 are multiple differences. The old film was a silent film, in black and white, while this is a talking color film. In the original film were also the names of the characters changed, in an attempt to not film rights for the novel Dracula having to pay. By 1979, the novel under the public domain, so are the names in this movie after the war. However, the storyline remained the same, largely on some minor changes after:

==Trivia<span class="mw-editsection" len="343" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Awards and nominations<span class="mw-editsection" len="358" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">
 * The vampire in this film has a more complex personality. He is gloomy and lonely. He several times from his dislike of his immortality. There is also a dialogue between him and Lucy, in which he pronounces his craving for warmth and love.
 * As in the original movie just most victims die of the vampire. In this film, however, he also brings a lot of rats with it, as well as the plague with which the entire city in chaos expires. In the original film was kill the whole plague were all a misunderstanding and the work of the vampire.
 * The vampire is being entrapped in the same way, but does not perish as the Sun's rays take him to ashes. Instead, he drops into one another, without exactly clear is if he really is dead or not. Van Helsing, which Lucy's story first not believed, then creates the finish with a wooden stake, a method that was not even mentioned in the original film.
 * The end of this version is more open and obscure. Harker shows itself become a vampire and let Van Helsing arrest for murder on the count. Then he leaves to continue the work of the vampire.
 * The entire film crew consisted of 16 people-2 times as much as when Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes Herzog (1972) turned.
 * The slow motion shots of the flying bat are not filmed by Herzog's film crew. The images were borrowed from a scientific documentary.
 * Herzog has a cameo in the film: he plays the dockworker in the port of Varga which his foot in one of the coffins of the count and get bitten by a rat.
 * The international composition of the film crew made sure some actors because of their heavy accent had to be dubbed. Dubbing also offered outcome if it's too expensive or too difficult to include a scene was twice.The scene in which Lucy to an official (played by Rijk de Gooyer) trying to tell about the vampire included, for example, only in English, and later in the German dubbed.
 * Behavioral biologist Maarten 't Hart, who because of his expertise in laboratory rats by Herzog was consulted, tells that he no longer wished to work with when he saw how brutal these rats were treated. The 11,000 rats, which were imported from Hungary, had during the days long journey to Netherlands no eating or drinking and eating each other upon arrival were started. Herzog insisted that the white rats were dyed black. To do this, had to be immersed with rats cages a few seconds in boiling water. Half of the rats that after this paint treatment was still alive, immediately began to lick clean, so that the rats in the film have a light gray tint.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" len="182" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[1]
 * The film is partly in Netherlands, especially in Delft and Schiedam.