The physical appearance of Count Orlok, with his hooked nose, long claw-like fingernails, and large bald head, has been compared to stereotypical caricatures of Jewish people from the time in which Nosferatu was produced. Nosferatu has been noted for its themes regarding fear of the Other, as well as for possible anti-Semitic undertones, both of which may have been partially derived from the Bram Stoker novel Dracula, upon which the film was based. Hardy von Francois as Mental Hospital Doctor.Wolfgang Heinz as First Mate of The Empusa.Max Nemetz as The Captain of The Empusa.Schreck in a promotional still for the film Count Orlok's ruined castle in the Carpathian Mountains is then shown. Ellen lives just long enough to be embraced by her grief-stricken husband. After he leaves, Orlok enters and drinks her blood, but starts as the sun rises, causing Orlok to vanish in a puff of smoke by the sunlight. Hutter revives her, and she sends him to fetch Professor Bulwer, a physician. She opens her window to invite Orlok in, but faints. Ellen reads the book Hutter found, which claims that a vampire can be defeated if a pure-hearted woman distracts the vampire with her beauty. Many deaths in the town follow after Orlok's arrival, which the town's doctors blame on an unspecified plague.

When the ship arrives in Wisborg, Orlok leaves unobserved, carrying one of his coffins, and moves into the house he purchased. The coffins are taken aboard a schooner, where all of the ship's sailors and captain die and Orlok takes control. Hours later, Orlok piles up coffins on a coach and climbs into the last one before the coach departs, and Hutter rushes home after learning this. The next day, Hutter explores the castle, only to retreat back into his room after he finds the coffin in which Orlok is resting dormant in the crypt. When the doctor arrives, she shouts Hutter's name, apparently able to see Orlok in his castle threatening her unconscious husband. Meanwhile, his wife awakens from her sleep, and in a trance walks onto her balcony's railing, which gets his friend Harding's attention. The door opens by itself and Orlok enters, and Hutter hides under the bed covers and falls unconscious. He cowers in his room as midnight approaches, with no way to bar the door. That night, Orlok signs the documents to purchase the house and notices a photo of Hutter's wife, Ellen, remarking that she has a 'lovely neck.' Reading a book about vampires that he took from the local inn, Hutter starts to suspect that Orlok is a vampire. Hutter wakes up the morning after to find fresh punctures on his neck, which he attributes to mosquitoes.

When Hutter is eating dinner and accidentally cuts his thumb, Orlok tries to suck the blood out, but his repulsed guest pulls his hand away. Hutter rides on a coach to a castle, where he is welcomed by Count Orlok. While embarking on his journey, Hutter stops at an inn where the locals become frightened by the mere mention of Orlok's name. In 1838, in the German town of Wisborg, Thomas Hutter is sent to Transylvania by his employer, estate agent Herr Knock, to visit a new client named Count Orlok who plans to buy a house across from Hutter's own home. Plot ДЄn iconic scene of the shadow of Count Orlok climbing up a staircase

However, a few prints of Nosferatu survived, and the film came to be regarded as an influential masterpiece of cinema. setting it in Germany with German named characters makes the story more tangible and immediate for German-speaking viewers'.Д®ven with several details altered, Stoker's heirs sued over the adaptation, and a court ruling ordered all copies of the film to be destroyed. Film historian David Karat states in his commentary track for the film that 'No source has ever documented' this claim and that since the film was 'a low-budget film made by Germans for German audiences. However, this seems unlikely as the original German intertitles explicitly state that the film is based on the Bram Stoker novel. It is believed by some that these changes were implemented in an attempt to avoid accusations of copyright infringement. Various names and other details were changed from the novel, including Count Dracula being renamed Count Orlok. The film was produced by Prana Film and is an unauthorized and unofficial adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula. Murnau and starring Max Schreck as Count Orlok, a vampire with an interest in both a new residence and the wife ( Greta SchrГ¶der) of his estate agent ( Gustav von Wangenheim). Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (German: Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens) is a 1922 silent German Expressionist horror film directed by F. Nosferatu (full-length film with English intertitles)

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