Oct 12th   
Nosferatu**    
(Elgar Room, Royal Albert Hall)

(Ger 1922)
Prana Films. 94m. bw. silent

A sinister vampire count arrives in a German port and spreads the plague.
Murnau's famous first film version of Dracula - cheekily changing the names of the characters, and was sued successfully by Bram Stoker's widow; most copies were therefore destroyed, except for some (including this 2006 restoration), what remains is a a stilted but highly entertaining fantasy melodrama. which admittedly shows its eccentricity with some of the added scenes (the vampire lugubriously walks along carrying his own coffin to his house and then dissolves into it!) Memorable for certain indelible images, not least its star's memorable make-up.

Written by: Henrik Galeen, based on the novel by Bram Stoker.
Producers: Enriko Dieckman, Albin Grau.
Director: F.W. Murnau.
Starring: Max Schreck, Gustav von Wangenheim, Greta Schroder, Alexander Granach, Ruth Landshoff, John Gottowt.
Photography: Fritz Arno Wagner, Gunther Krampf.

Music: Dmytro Morykit (played from memory on piano.)