Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (Film 1979)

Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (Nosferatu: Phantom of the Night) is a 1979 horror film written and directed by Werner Herzog. <br>Audio in German with English subtitles. <br> <br>It is set primarily in 19th-century Wismar, Germany and Transylvania, and was conceived as a stylistic remake of F. W. Murnau's 1922 German Dracula adaptation Nosferatu. The picture stars Klaus Kinski as Count Dracula, Isabelle Adjani as Lucy Harker, Bruno Ganz as Jonathan Harker, and French artist-writer Roland Topor as Renfield. <br> <br>Nosferatu the Vampyre was co-produced by Werner Herzog Filmproduktion, French film company Gaumont, and West German public-service television station ZDF. As was common for West German films during the 1970s, Nosferatu the Vampyre was filmed on a minimal budget and with a crew of just 16 people. Herzog could not film in Wismar, where the original Murnau film was shot, so he relocated production to Delft, Netherlands. Parts of the film were shot in nearby Schiedam, after the Delft authorities refused to allow Herzog to release 11,000 rats for a scene in the film. Dracula's home is represented by locations in Czechoslovakia. Herzog originally intended to film in Transylvania, but Nicolae Ceaușescu's regime would not allow it due to the relation between the character of count Dracula and Vlad the Impaler. Pernštejn Castle stands in for castle Dracula in the film, both interiors and exteriors. <br> <br>Herzog himself filmed the opening sequence at the Mummies of Guanajuato museum in Guanajuato, Mexico, where a large number of naturally mummified bodies of the victims of an 1833 cholera epidemic are on public display. <br> <br>Cast &amp;amp; Characters: <br>Klaus Kinski as Count Dracula <br>Isabelle Adjani as Lucy Harker <br>Bruno Ganz as Jonathan Harker <br>Roland Topor as Renfield <br>Walter Ladengast as Dr Abraham van Helsing <br>Dan van Husen as Warden <br>Jan Groth as Harbormaster <br>Carsten Bodinus as Schrader <br>Martje Grohmann as Mina <br>Rijk de Gooyer as Town official <br>Clemens Scheitz as Clerk <br>John Leddy as Coachman <br>Tim Beekman as Coffin bearer <br>Lo van Hensbergen <br>Margiet van Hartingsveld