| | Kinoeye| German film: Werner Herzog's Nosferatu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) |
 | | As much as its filmmakers were nurtured by their strained relation with their pre-war forefathers like Lang and Murnau, the historical and economic roots of contemporary German film were, formed during the postwar 1950s when American occupation of West Germany fostered a peculiarly displaced relation between the two cultures. |
 | | For Jack Kroll, "When the Dracula figure lurches ashore in FW Murnau's classic 1922 'Nosferatu,' carrying his coffin filled with native earth, it was a chilling premonition of Hitler's imperialism of death, the desire to necropolize the world. |
 | | Critic John Azzopardi has claimed that Herzog's Nosferatu is, "one of the greatest horror films ever made." [ 21 ] Though clearly a judgement call, his remark has merit, especially when one considers the picture itself and in particular the cinematography of Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein. |
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