Nosferatu
1922
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A week before the successful opening of Tabu, Murnau died in a California hospital from injuries sustained in an automobile accident. Of the 21 films Murnau directed, eight are now considered to be completely lost. One reel of his feature Marizza, genannt die Schmuggler-Madonna survives. This leaves only 12 films surviving in their entirety.
- 1919–1931
- Friedrich Wilhelm Plumpe, December 28, 1888, Bielefeld, Germany
Mar 28, 2024 · December 28, 1889, Bielefeld, Germany. Died: March 11, 1931, Hollywood, California, U.S. (aged 41) Notable Works: “Nosferatu” “Sunrise” “Tabu” “The Last Laugh”
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
A week prior to the opening of the film Tabu, Murnau died in a Santa Barbara hospital from injuries he had received in an automobile accident that occurred along the Pacific Coast Highway near Rincon Beach, southeast of Santa Barbara. Only 11 people attended his funeral.
- January 1, 1
- Bielefeld, Germany
- January 1, 1
- Santa Barbara, California, USA
A week prior to the opening of the film Tabu, Murnau died in a Santa Barbara hospital from injuries he had received in an automobile accident that occurred along the Pacific Coast Highway near Rincon Beach, southeast of Santa Barbara. Only 11 people attended his funeral.
- December 28, 1888
- March 11, 1931
Jan 4, 2001 · Murnau was a closet homosexual, but his “secret” came out with his death in a car accident at age 42. Kenneth Anger wrote in his book “Hollywood Babylon”: “Murnau’s death in 1931 ...
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Jul 20, 2015 · Last week, someone swiped the skull of film director Frederick W. Murnau from his grave in Stahnsdorf Cemetery near Berlin, Justin Wm. Moyer reports for the Washington Post. Murnau is best...
Mar 4, 2022 · Some say that the vampire symbolises death: if so, how can the film end, in abrupt and arbitrary reversal of its steady linear development, with the death of the vampire, the death of death? In fact, Nosferatu ends, as one would expect it to end, with the irreducible triumph of death.
