Kino-Konzert mit André Desponds "Nosferatu – Eine Symphonie des Grauens"

"Thomas Hutter, secretary of a broker in Wisborg, travels to Transylvania to negotiate a house purchase with Count Orlok. The lord of the castle turns out to be a vampire who brings plague and death to Wisborg. Only through the selfless devotion of Hutter's young wife can the disaster be averted.
A masterpiece of German silent film expressionism based on motifs from the romantic horror novel by Bram Stoker; ingenious forerunner and benchmark of later ‹Dracula› film adaptations. Murnau makes virtuoso use of the technical, poetic and emotional effects of the medium and – by depicting the intrusion of the demonic into the bourgeois idyll – creates a gloomy reflection of collective fears in the Weimar Republic." (Lexikon des int. Films)

Director: Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
Screenplay: Henrik Galeen, based on the novel "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
Camera: Fritz Arno Wagner, Günther Krampf
Music: Hans Erdmann (original composition)
Editing: Fritz Arno Wagner, Günther Krampf

With: Max Schreck (Graf Orlok/Nosferatu), Gustav von Wangenheim (Thomas Hutter), Greta Schröder (Ellen Hutter), Georg Heinrich Schnell (Westrenka), Ruth Landshoff (Lucy Westrenka), Alexander Granach (Häusermakler Knock), John Gottowt (Professor Bulwer), Max Nemetz (Ship Captain), Wolfgang Heinz (Maat), Albert Venohr (Sailor), Gustav Botz (Dr. Sievers)

95 min., silent film with live music, German subtitles, J/14