West Germany, France, [“a German-French co-production”], 1979
107m
35mm film, Eastmancolor, 1.85:1
mono
German, French
A West German/French horror film directed by Werner Herzog.
Plot Summary
Estate agent Jonathan Harker travels to the castle home of the Count Dracula in order to sell him a new home in his hometown, Virna. But the vampire Count Dracula sets his heart on Harker’s wife Lucy and arrives in Virna spreading plague with him. All Dracula wants is to be able to grow old naturally, to love and to die.
Credits
* = uncredited
Crew
Directed by: Werner Herzog
© [not given on screen]
Michael Gruskoff presents a Werner Herzog Filmproduktion; Werner Herzog Filmproduktion, Munich, Gaumont S.A., Paris
Executive Producer: Walter Saxer
Produced by: Werner Herzog, Michael Gruskoff
Written by: Werner Herzog
Novel: Dracula by Bram Stoker *
Director of Photography: Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein
Editor: Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus
Music: Popol Vuh/Florian Fricke and Richard Wagner: Rheingold; Charles Gounod: Sanctus
Costume Designer: Gisela Storch
Make-up: Reiko Kruk, Dominique Colladant
Hairdresser: Ludovic Paris
Special Effects: Cornelius Siegel
Production Designer: Henning von Gierke
Cast
Klaus Kinski (Count Dracula)
Isabelle Adjani (Lucy Harker)
Bruno Ganz (Jonathan Harker)
Roland Topor (Renfield)
Walter Ladengast (Doctor Van Helsing)
Dan van Husen (warden)
Jan Groth (harbourmaster)
Carsten Bodinus (Schrader)
Martje Grohmann (Mina)
Ryk de Gooyer (town official)
Clemens Scheitz (Clerc)
Lo van Hensbergen
John Leddy (coachman)
Margiet van Hartingsveld
Tim Beekman (Coffinbearer)
Jacques Dufilho (captain)
Alternative Titles
Nosferatu – fantôme de la nuit – French title
Nosferatu the Vampyre – English language title
Links
Remake of
Nosferatu: Eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922)
Remake
Nosferatu (2024)
Extracts included in
Die Nacht der Regisseure (1995)
Monster Mania (1997)
Mein liebster Feind – Klaus Kinski (1999)
Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy (2010)
Sequel
Nosferatu a Venezia (1988)
References
Periodicals
- Castle of Frankenstein no.4 pp.26-28
- Entertainment Weely no.470 (5 February 1999) p.74 – review (Kinski Counts by Michael Sauter)
- Films in Review vol.30 no.10 (December 1979) pp.627-628 – review (by Tom Rogers)
- Variety vol.297 no.10 (9 January 1980) p.100 – note (Of 219 film openings in 1979, 170 preemed in West End sites)
Books
- The Aurum Film Encyclopedia: Horror by Phil Hardy (ed.) p.338-339 – illustrated credits, review
- Caligari’s Children: The Film as Tale of Terror by Siegbert Solomon Prawer pp.19, 72, 134, 225, 264-5
- Cinematic Vampires by John L. Flynn pp.202-204
- Count Dracula Goes to the Movies: Stoker’s Novel Adapted (3rd Edition) by Lyndon W. Joslin pp.113-132 – credits, synopsis, production notes, review
- Dracula in the Dark: The Dracula Film Adaptations by James Craig Holte pp.75-76, 117 – note
- Dracula in Visual Media: Film, Television, Comic Book and Electronic Game Appearances, 1921-2010 by John Edgar Browning and Caroline Joan (Kay) Picart pp.137-138 – illustrated credits, review
- The Encyclopedia of Novels Into Films second edition by John C. Tibbetts and James M. Welsh pp.105-109 – illustrated credits, review (by J.C.T. [John C. Tibbetts])
- Euro Gothic: Classics of Continental Horror Cinema by Jonathan Rigby pp.195, 359-62, 398
- Film Review 1979-80 by F. Maurice Speed p.152
- Horror! 333 Films to Scare You to Death by James Marriott & Kim Newman p.213
- Horror and Science Fiction Films II by Donald C. Willis p.286-287
- Horror Films of the 1970s by John Kenneth Muir pp.605-609 – credits, synopsis, review
- Horrorshows: The A-Z of Horror in Film, TV, Radio and Theatre by Gene Wright p.192 – illustrated credits, review
- House of Psychotic Women by Kier-La Janisse p.105
- The Illustrated Vampire Movie Guide by Stephen Jones pp.86-87 – credits, review
- Looking for a New England: Action, Time, Vision: Music, Film and TV 1975-1986 by Simon Matthews p.21
- The Mummy on Screen: Orientalism and Monstrosity in Horror Cinema by Basil Glynn
- Vampire Films of the 1970s: Dracula to Blacula and Every Fang Between by Gary A. Smith pp.195-198; 216 – illustrated review; credits
- The Vampire in Science Fiction Film and Literature by Paul Meehan p.71
Other sources
- BFI Southbank Guide October/November 2018 p.55 – illustrated listing
