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Nosferatu
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Discover the Nosferatu Poster, the essential masterpiece of German horror cinema. This timeless work, produced by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau in 1922, marked the history of cinema and continues to fascinate film fans around the world. The Nosferatu poster perfectly captures the essence of the film, conveying the dark, terrifying and oppressive atmosphere that reigns throughout the story. The scariest vampire in the history of cinema comes to life before your eyes, plunging you into a fascinating universe, where terror and fascination mingle. Add this poster to your collection of cult films, or decorate your interior for a gothic and captivating atmosphere. Don't miss this opportunity to own a unique piece of cinema history.
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Description of this Nosferatu Poster
Nosferatu - A Symphony of Horror is a German feature film in five acts directed in 1922 by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau. The silent film is an adaptation - unauthorized - of the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker and tells the story of Count Orlok (Nosferatu), a vampire from the Carpathians who is inflamed with love for the beautiful Ellen and sows terror in his city native of Wisborg. Nosferatu is considered one of the first exponents of the horror film and had a great influence on the genre thanks to its visual design. At the same time, the work, with its demonic main character and its dreamlike setting reflecting tortured states of mind, is considered one of the most important works of Weimar Republic cinema. The film was to be destroyed in 1925 after losing a copyright case, but it has survived in countless edited versions and is available today in several restored versions. Nosferatu - A Symphony of Horror is a German feature film in five acts directed in 1922 by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau. The silent film is an adaptation - unauthorized - of the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker and tells the story of Count Orlok (Nosferatu), a vampire from the Carpathians who is inflamed with love for the beautiful Ellen and sows terror in his city native of Wisborg. Nosferatu is considered one of the first exponents of the horror film and had a great influence on the genre thanks to its visual design. At the same time, the work, with its demonic main character and its dreamlike setting reflecting tortured states of mind, is considered one of the most important works of Weimar Republic cinema. The film was to be destroyed in 1925 after losing a copyright case, but it has survived in countless edited versions and is available today in several restored versions.
A chronicler recounts how, in 1838, the plague arrived in the port town of Wisborg: The real estate agent Knock receives a written order from a Carpathian count named Orlok to look for a house for him in Wisborg. The real estate agent, apparently delighted with the count's request, instructs his young colleague Thomas Hutter to go to Orlok and offer him the half-dilapidated house located opposite the Hutters' apartment. Thomas is full of energy and is very much looking forward to this trip. His young wife Ellen, on the other hand, reacts with concern and dark foreboding to her husband's travel plans. Thomas entrusts his wife to his friend, the shipowner Harding, and sets off. On the way, he stops at an inn. The natives are apparently very afraid of Orlok and strongly warn the young man against continuing his journey. The "Book of Vampires", a compendium on bloodsuckers that Thomas had already taken with him when he left Wisborg, could have served as a warning. But he ignores all warnings and cautions and continues his journey.
When his guides abandon him at a bridge before the final climb to the castle, Thomas, contrite, must continue his journey alone. A few miles from his destination, he is picked up by the Count's ominous carriage in a dark forest and arrives at the gloomy castle of Orlok. Once in the courtyard, there is no one there. Thomas wonders where all the castle servants have gone, but he is then received by the squire himself. Count Orlok is no less ominous than his dwelling: a thin, bald figure with thick eyebrows, a large hooked nose, and unnaturally pointed ears. A night meal is prepared for Thomas. When he accidentally cuts his thumb with a knife, Orlok wants to eagerly pounce on the blood, but ends up letting go of Thomas. The count asks the young man to stay. After a difficult night's sleep, Thomas wakes up with two bite marks on his neck. However, he naively interprets them as mosquito bites and writes a letter of indignation to his wife. The next evening, when Count Orlok happens to see Ellen's portrait in a locket, he immediately accepts Thomas' offer and signs the sales contract without even thinking about it. Thomas suspects that he has thus invited fate into his hometown. That night, Orlok approaches the sleeping Thomas to suck his blood, but in the distance, Ellen wakes up in Wisborg screaming and holding out her hands in supplication. The count renounces his victim.
Ellen enters a trance-like state and begins to sleepwalk. Meanwhile, Thomas explores Orlok Castle during the day and finds the Count lying in a coffin, in a death-like sleep. The following evening, he witnesses the Count's rush to load coffins filled with earth onto a cart. No sooner has Orlok lay down in the last empty coffin and pulled the lid over him than the sinister chariot speeds away. Thomas flees the castle, faints and is saved by locals who treat the feverish man in a hospital. Meanwhile, Orlok arranges for the coffins to be rafted to Varna and loaded onto a sailing ship. The Empusa sets off for Wisborg with Orlok on board, while Thomas, recovered, hastens to return home by road. On board the Empusa, the crew members die one after the other from a mysterious illness. When the sailors investigate and open one of the coffins, a horde of rats escapes. When finally only the captain and his first boatswain are still alive, the count emerges from his coffin during the night. The mate jumps from the boat and the captain attaches himself to the rudder. The Empusa, like a ghost ship, enters the port of Wisborg, where the dockers find only the corpse of the captain on the boat.
Knock, who has meanwhile landed in the insane asylum because of his appetite for living flies, is happy that the "master" is finally here. The count, dragging a coffin and rats, leaves the ship and walks around the city at night. The shipowner Harding finds the logbook on the orphaned Empusa which records the fatal illness. The city declares a state of emergency, but it is too late: the plague spreads to Wisborg and claims countless victims. Even Professor Bulwer, "Paracelsian" and expert in epidemic diseases, cannot find an antidote to the epidemic. Knock has escaped from the asylum and is pursued by a pack who accuse him of the blight, but he manages to escape and hide outside the city.
Thomas also managed to reach Wisborg. He brings with him the "Book of Vampires", in which Ellen reads that only a pure-hearted woman can stop "the vampire" by making him drink his blood willingly and thus making him "forget the cry of the rooster" . Meanwhile, Orlok has taken up residence in the desolate house across the street from the Hutters. He looks out the window at Ellen's room with nostalgia and incantation. The young woman pretends to collapse and sends Thomas to get a doctor. She can now sacrifice herself to the vampire without being disturbed, as she had read in the book. Orlok, suspecting nothing and imagining himself about to make his wishes come true, slips into his room and approaches Ellen to drink her blood. As he feeds on her, he suddenly jumps: the first crowing of the rooster is heard, Nosferatu has forgotten the time because of his desire. Dawn is already here and, with the first ray of sunlight, the vampire vanishes into smoke. Thomas arrives with the doctor in Ellen's room and hugs her, but it is too late - Ellen is dead. But as Ellen hoped, the end of the vampire also means the end of the plague.
