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Films

Nosferatu

Ștefan Bolea considers two very different artistic approaches to love and death.

Director Robert Eggers’ movie Nosferatu, released on December 25th, 2024, was a remake of F.W. Murnau’s 1922 silent German Expressionist classic, Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror, itself an unofficial adaptation of Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula. Murnau’s unauthorised rendition led to a copyright infringement lawsuit from Stoker’s widow, and the court ordered the destruction of the movie. Some copies survived, though, making the original Nosferatu an almost mythical prototype of the horror genre.

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