Nosferatu (1978)
Director/Screenplay: Werner Herzog – Scenario: Nosferatu (Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, 1922); Dracula (Bram Stocker, 1897) – Director of photography: Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein – Film editor: Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus – Production design: Henning von Gierke, Ulrich Bergfelder – Costume: Gisela Storch - Sound: Harald Maury – Music: Florian Fricke (Popol Vuh), Wagner, Gounod – Production: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion – Country: Germany – Running time: 103’
Cast: Klaus Kinski (Dracula), Isabelle Adjani (Lucy Harker), Bruno Ganz (Jonathan Harker), Jacques Dufilho (Captain), Roland Topor (Renfield), Walter Ladengast (Dr. Van Helsing), Dan van Husen (Warden), Roger Berry Losch, Jan Groth (Captain), Carsten Bodinus (Schrader), Martje Grohmann (Mina), Ryk de Gooyer (Town official), Clemens Scheitz (Clerk), Lo van Hensbergen (Harbormaster's Assistent), John Leddy (Coachman), Margiet van Hartingsveld (Vrouw), Beverly Walker (Nun)
The film:
“I was fascinated by the mummies I saw in Mexico when I hed left the United States and I had to survive somehow. The mummies were lined up against a wall in a large cemetery and they were really, very intense, and that image was so deeply imprinted in my mind that, fifteen years later, it came back to torment me. I think that when I decided to include it in Nosferatu, the mummies finally found their place.”
[Grazia Paganelli (curated by), Signs of Life. Tribute to Werner Herzog, Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Torino; Il Castoro, Milano 2008, p. 44]
The film restoration:
The preservation of Nosferatu was conducted by Museo Nazionale del Cinema di Torino and it was based on the original 35 mm negatives conserved by Werner Herzog Film Archive.
The preservation of the film is part of a project to valorize the works by Werner Herzog, including the homage Signs of life. Tribute to Werner Herzog organized by Museo Nazionale del Cinema in 2008.
The event showed the complete retrospective, the photography exhibition, a concert and a workshop and it was realized together with Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, the Scuola Holden, the Teatro Regio of Torino, the Werner Herzog Film and the German Film.
The preservation was carried out in 2007 at the laboratories ARRI and Geyer.
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