Nosferatu the Vampyre

“It is fear and fun. It is a scream of horror and a cry of delight. It is Nosferatu, the Vampyre.”

7.3(1,088)19791h 47m

DramaHorror

A real estate agent leaves behind his beautiful wife to go to Transylvania to visit the mysterious Count Dracula and formalize the purchase of a property in Wismar.

Director

Werner Herzog

Budget

$1.4M

Revenue

$0.0M

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Cast

Klaus Kinski

Count Dracula

Isabelle Adjani

Lucy Harker

Bruno Ganz

Jonathan Harker

Roland Topor

Renfield

Walter Ladengast

Dr. Van Helsing

Martje Grohmann

Mina

Carsten Bodinus

Schrader

Beverly Walker

Abbess

Jacques Dufilho

Captain

Clemens Scheitz

Clerk

John Leddy

Coachman

Rudolf Wolf

Coachman

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Reviews

2 reviews

badelf

6mo ago

9.0

The visuals in Werner Herzog's "Nosferatu the Vampyre" are luscious, hauntingly beautiful in ways that make you wonder: where did Herzog find these set pieces? The plague-ridden streets, the Gothic architecture, the rats flooding through medieval towns—it all feels discovered rather than constructed. This is Herzog's trademark style at its finest. You never feel like you're watching a movie. Inste...

Geronimo1967

2y ago

7.0

"Harker" (Bruno Ganz) travels to remote Transylvania where he is to help "Count Dracula" (Klaus Kinski) buy a new home in his hometown of Wismar. Why? Well that's because he has fallen in love with a photograph of his beautiful wife "Lucy" (Isabelle Adjani) and has determined to make her his immortal bride. "Harker" had been warned by the locals of the dangers of visiting the "Count" but he presse...