Nosferatu
1922
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F. W. Murnau. 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.
- 1919–1931
- Friedrich Wilhelm Plumpe, December 28, 1888, Bielefeld, Germany
F.W. Murnau (1888-1931) F.W. Murnau. 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. During World War I he served as a company commander at the eastern front and was in the German air force ...
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- Bielefeld, Germany
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Mar 28, 2024 · F.W. Murnau (born December 28, 1889, Bielefeld, Germany—died March 11, 1931, Hollywood, California, U.S.) was a German film director who revolutionized the art of cinematic expression by using the camera subjectively to interpret the emotional state of a character. Murnau studied philosophy, art history, and literature at the Universities of ...
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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. During World War I he served as a company commander at the eastern front and was in the German air force, surviving several crashes without any ...
- December 28, 1888
- March 11, 1931
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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.
Dec 21, 2016 · A beginner's path through the sublime silent cinema of F.W. Murnau, the German director of Sunrise, Nosferatu and Faust. Learn why The Last Laugh is a good place to start, and what to watch next from his diverse and influential style.
Mar 4, 2022 · Made in Germany in 1922, during the heyday of expressionist fantasy, F. W. Murnau’s Nosferatu manifestly indulges the period taste for the horrific: the story is adapted (albeit freely) from Dracula; the vampire is monstrously conceived as the thin, repulsively bald Nosferatu, somehow suggestive of both a human skeleton and a rat. Yet ...
