Bleak Cinema Presents NOSFERATU THE VAMPYRE
“Time is an abyss…Profound as a thousand nights.”
Riding the bloody crests of German New Wave, Werner Herzog infused F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu with new layers of poetic rawness. Nosferatu the Vampyre pays homage to Murnau’s original while painting newfound humanity into the Dracula tale.
The film–led by an international all-star cast of Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Adjani, and Bruno Ganz–unlocks textual and contextual richness to the classic story, plunging the shadowed corridors of Dracula’s castle into new depths of beauty-tinged despair. Our Bleak Cinema series continues with this stunning work of operatic decay, in which Herzog stares unblinking into the decrepit chambers of the human soul.
Presented by Bleak Cinema