NOSFERATU: PHANTOM DER NACHT
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Autor S. S. Prawer Seiten 96 Seiten Preis 15,50 Euro Verlag BFI (British Film Institute) Publishing Datum VÖ Mai 2004 ISBN 1-844-570-31-2 bestellen bei amazon.de
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Nosferatu Phantom der Nacht (1979) is sometimes called a minor work, despite the towering central performance by Klaus Kinski. But it is one of the masterpleces of the 'New German Cinema' of the 1960s and 70s, a film that exhibits all of Herzog's melancholy and pessimistic Romanticism, his spirituality and his technical flair. Adapted from Bram Stoker's Dracula, and mindful too of an earlier German version of that same novel - F. W. Murnau's Nosferatu - Eine Symphonie des Grauens (1921) - Herzog's film, with its terrifying coda in which the reincarnated fiend rides out into the world, is perhaps the most compelling screen treatment of the vampire myth. Beginning with Stoker's book and the nineteenth-century obsession with vampires, S. S. Prawer goes on to explore Herzog's formation as well as the evolution of his career.
To complete a comprehensive account of Nosferatu, Prawer gives an account of the production history as well as the cultural and aesthetic components that combine to such powerful effect: the skill of the actors, the debts to Romanticism and to Murnau, the use of music by Wagner, Gounod and Florian Fricke, and the film's many extraordinary, haunting images.
