Nosferatu
1922
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Birth name. Friedrich Wilhelm Plumpe. Height. 6′ 4″ (1.93 m) Mini Bio. F.W. Murnau was a German film director. He was greatly influenced by Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Shakespeare and Ibsen plays he had seen at the age of 12, and became a friend of director Max Reinhardt.
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History. Encyclopedias almanacs transcripts and maps. F. W. Murnau. views 3,578,227 updated. F. W. Murnau. Next to Fritz Lang and G. W. Pabst, motion picture director F. W. Murnau (1888-1931) was one of just three directors responsible for revolutionizing German silent cinema during the 1920s.
Dec 21, 2016 · 21 December 2016. By Ben Nicholson. Nosferatu (1922) Why this might not seem so easy. It can often be daunting when you decide to take the first plunge into the work of a revered director, and the reputation of Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau has been calcifying for nearly a century.
Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau (born Friedrich Wilhelm Plumpe; December 28, 1888 – March 11, 1931) was a German film director, producer and screenwriter. He is regarded as one of cinema's most influential filmmakers for his work in the silent era.
This essay is focused on the work of Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, whom I consider to be one of the first auteur filmmakers in world cinema. This statement is based on an analysis of the state of cinema before Murnau and consequently his impact on the medium, the historical, artistic, and social factors that influenced his own work and vision ...
Once called "the greatest poet the screen has ever known" by French film theorist and director Alexandre Astruc, German director F.W. Murnau did more than any of his contemporaries to liberate the cinema from theatrical and literary conventions, achieving a seamless narrative fluency by freeing the camera to discover varied perspectives in the m...
Mar 24, 2022 · Eureka Entertainment. By Roisin Kiberd. March 24, 2022. His silhouette precedes him: spindly limbs and a long black coat, fingernails like claws; an otherworldly shadow that has loomed over cinema...
