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Nosferatu Screening with New England Film Orchestra
October 12 @ 7:00 pm
Nosferatu, with New England Film Orchestra
Duration: 94 minutes
Rated PG
Director: F. W. Murnau
This will be the premiere of composer Al Kryszak’s large orchestral score for F. W. Murnau’s classic “Nosferatu”, featuring Czechoslovakian cimbalom virtuoso Matěj Číp with Gina Naggar & The New England Film Orchestra.
About the Film:
A 1922 silent German Expressionist vampire film directed by F. W. Murnau and starring Max Schreck as Count Orlok, a vampire who preys on the wife (Greta Schröder) of his estate agent (Gustav von Wangenheim) and brings the plague to their town. Nosferatu was produced by Prana Film and is an unauthorized and unofficial adaptation of Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula. In 1838, in the fictional German town of Wisborg, Thomas Hutter is sent to Transylvania by his employer, estate agent Herr Knock, to visit a new client, Count Orlok, who is planning on buying a house across from Hutter’s own residence. While embarking on his journey, Hutter stops at an inn in which the locals are frightened by the mere mention of Orlok’s name.
A Note from the Composer
“I’ve always been drawn to haunted people, haunted locations & haunted nationalities (Polish & Transylvanian ancestry), and F. W. Murnau’s masterpiece of horror, “Nosferatu” (1922) was my first live film score. I performed a quite different version of the score 30 years ago, (1994), guitars and dulcimer, at The Directors Guild at The Cinematheque in L.A., and in New York at Arts at St. Ann’s, The Riviera Theatre and Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie.”