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Genres:
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Drama /
Horror /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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E. Elias Merhige
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Actors:
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Eddie Izzard,
Ronan Vibert,
Aden Gillett,
Nicholas Elliott,
Sophie Langevin,
John Malkovich,
Willem Dafoe,
Udo Kier,
Cary Elwes,
Catherine McCormack
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Duration:
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92 min.
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Rating:
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(6.8/10)72.5
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Plot Summary:
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Max Schreck's performance in the classic film Nosferatu has fit well-known. What if the reason he was so seemly is that he exceedingly was a vampire? That's the premise of this film, which features director F.W. Murnau so enamored with creating the perfect vampire photograph that he seeks out an real member of the undead to perform the title post. But when Schreck starts taking more and more advantage of the opportunities to feed he suddenly has, can Murnau come to his senses and ruin him?
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Shadow of the Vampire
A good cover with Eddie Izzard in it. Whatever next? This smart horror anecdote tells of the radio show of Nosferatu, that highpoint of German silent cinema. When Bram Stoker's widow refuses to sell the rights to 'Dracula', big cheese FW Murnau (Malkovich) altogether concocts his own, highly spin-off tale of one Count Orlok. Bemused band in tow, he does the unheard of - heads idle to Czechoslovakia for some location shooting. The local peasants' superstitions appearance of entirely amusing until Murnau introduces the cast and crew to inauspicious lead man, Max Schreck (Dafoe). Hunched, hellish-clad and rat-faced, method extremo Schreck outwardly stays in character the whole time. But when the cinematographer, who has mysteriously fallen ill, is hastily replaced, the ru...
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