In this highly influential silent horror film, the mysterious Count Orlok summons Thomas Hutter to his remote Transylvanian castle in the mountains. The eerie Orlok seeks to buy a house near Hutter and his wife, Ellen. After Orlok reveals his vampire nature, Hutter struggles to escape the castle, knowing that Ellen is in grave danger. Meanwhile Orlok's servant, Knock, prepares for his master to arrive at his new home.
A business journey lakes the unsuspecling realtor Huller from the porl city of Wisborg to Transylvania. There he enters into a sales contract with the sinister Count Orlok for a property in his hometown. The next morning, Hutter wakes up with small bite wounds on his neck and realizes that Orlok is a vampire. But is unable to pr prevent the Count from traveling to Wisborg and bringing plague and death to the small town. Hutter's wife EIlen has sensed the impending tragedy and sees only one way to save the town ...
F. W. Murnau's NOSFERATU, the first cinematic adaptation of Bram Stoker s ""Dracula"" is an icon of the horror genre. The film gains its impact not from the staging of physical violence or an artificial studio atmosphere, but from the contrast between the rigidity of the vampire Nosferatu and the impetuosity of the youthful hero Hutter, from the contrast between the barren, desolate Carpathian castle and the Biedermeier atmosphere of the town of Wisborg.
