Friedrich Gustav Max Schreck (6 September 1879 – 20 February 1936) was a German actor. He is most often remembered today for his lead role in the film Nosferatu (1922).
Max Schreck was born in Berlin-Friedenau, on 6 September 1879. Schreck received his training at the Berliner Staatstheater (the State Theatre of Berlin) which he completed in 1902. He made his stage debut in Meseritz and Speyer, and then toured Germany for two years appearing at theatres in Zittau, Erfurt, Bremen,Lucerne,Gera, and Frankfurt am Main. Schreck then joined Max Reinhardt's company of performers in Berlin. Many of Reinhardt's troupe made a significant contribution to the cinema.
For three years between 1919 and 1922, Schreck appeared at the Munich Kammerspiele, including a role in the expressionist production of Bertolt Brecht's debut, Trommeln in der Nacht (Drums in the Night) (in which he played the "freakshow landlord" Glubb). During this time he also worked on his first film Der Richter von Zalamea, adapted from a six act play, for Decla Bioscop.
Gustav von Wangenheim (February 18, 1895 – August 5, 1975) was a German actor, screenwriter and director.
Wangenheim was born Ingo Clemens Gustav Adolf Freiherr von Wangenheim in Wiesbaden, Hesse, to parents Eduard Clemens Freiherr von Wangenheim and Minna Mengers. Both of his parents were actors; his father, who used the stage name Eduard von Winterstein, appeared in over 200 films between 1910 and 1960.
Wangenheim made his screen debut in 1914 in Passionels Tagebuch and went on to star in many silent features. Among his works were Fritz Lang's early science fiction film Frau im Mond, where he portrayed Windegger, and Karl Heinz Martin's Das Haus zum Mond. In 1921, Wangenheim was cast in what would prove to be his most enduring role, that of Thomas Hutter (Jonathan Harker) in F. W. Murnau's Nosferatu.
A member of the Communist Party of Germany since 1921, Wangenheim founded the Communist theatre company Die Truppe '31 in 1931. Die Truppe '31 produced three plays, authored and directed by Wangenheim, before it was shut down by order of the Nazi regime in 1933.
Greta Schröder (7 September 1891 – 13 April 1967) was a German actress. She is best known for the role of Thomas Hutter's wife and victim to Count Orlok in the 1922 silent film Nosferatu. In the fictionalized 2000 film, Shadow of the Vampire, she is portrayed as having been a famous actress during the making of Nosferatu, but in fact she was little known. The bulk of her career was during the 1920s, and she continued to act well into the 1950s, but by the 1930s her roles had diminished to only occasional appearances. Following a failed marriage with struggling actor Ernst Matray, she was married to film director Paul Wegener until his death in 1948.
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Alexander Granach (April 18, 1893 – March 14, 1945) was a popular German actor in the 1920s and 1930s.
Granach was born Jessaja Granach in Werbowitz (Wierzbowce/Werbiwci) (Horodenka district, Austrian Galicia then, now Verbivtsi, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine) to Jewish parents and rose to theatrical prominence at the Volksbühne in Berlin. Granach entered films in 1922; among the most widely exhibited of his silent efforts was the vampire classic Nosferatu (1922), in which the actor was cast as Knock, the lunatic counterpart to Dracula's Renfield. He co-starred in such major early German talkies as Kameradschaft (1931). Granach, who was Jewish, fled to the Soviet Union when Hitler came to power. When the Soviet Union also proved too inhospitable, he settled in Hollywood, where he made his first American film appearance as Kopalski in Ernst Lubitsch's Ninotchka (1939). Granach proved indispensable to big-studio filmmakers during the war years, effectively portraying both dedicated Nazis (he was Julius Streicher in The Hitler Gang) and loyal anti-fascists. Perhaps his most notable role was as Gestapo Inspector Alois Gruber in Fritz Lang's Hangmen Also Die! (1943). His last film appearance was in MGM's The Seventh Cross (1944), in which virtually the entire supporting cast was prominent European refugees.
Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (translated as Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror; or simply Nosferatu) is a classic 1922 German Expressionist horror film, directed by F. W. Murnau, starring Max Schreck as the vampire Count Orlok. The film, shot in 1921 and released in 1922, was an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, with names and other details changed because the studio could not obtain the rights to the novel (for instance, "vampire" became "Nosferatu" and "Count Dracula" became "Count Orlok").
Thomas Hutter (Jonathan Harker in Stoker's novel) lives in the fictitious German city of Wisborg. His employer, Knock (Stoker's Renfield), sends Hutter to Transylvania to visit a new client named Count Orlok (Stoker's Count Dracula). Hutter entrusts his loving wife Ellen (Stoker's Mina Harker) to his good friend Harding (Stoker's Arthur Holmwood) and Harding's sister Annie (Stoker's Lucy Westenra), before embarking on his long journey. Nearing his destination in the Carpathian mountains, Hutter stops at an inn for dinner. The locals become frightened by the mere mention of Orlok's name and discourage him from traveling to his castle at night, warning of a werewolf on the prowl. The next morning, Hutter takes a coach to a high mountain pass, but the coachmen decline to take him any further than the bridge as nightfall is approaching. A black-swathed coach appears after Hutter crosses the bridge and the coachman gestures for him to climb aboard. Hutter is welcomed at a castle by Count Orlok. When Hutter is eating dinner and accidentally cuts his thumb, Orlok tries to suck the blood out, but his repulsed guest pulls his hand away.
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Three boys' lives change when they stumble upon an ancient monster, Nosferatu. After discovering Nosferatu has been 'rejected by the damned and damned by the living,' one of the boys takes it upon himself to help the creature fit in with society.
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When an underground snuff film ring leaves 5 deadly vixens scarred for life and thirsty for vengeance, it's time to see how bad these good girls can get! The Hell Kittens will push the boundaries of bloody revenge to the edge and beyond anything you've ever seen! Does the vile band of violent and perverted snuff peddlers stand a chance in hell against the untamed wrath of the HELL KITTENS? Who will survive their orgy of shocking carnage? How far are these 5 deadly dames willing to go to settle the score? ALL THE WAY!
See how bad these good girls can get!
Maybe you don't have to be somebody to be someone.
Lindeman: Man, this is like Nam.
Professor Hagel: People call me a lecher and perhaps they're right. But people forget - lecher's have feelings, too.
Fiona: Just turn it in as is and call it something french. At least you'll get a degree.
Lindeman: Lane's a suicidal drug addict with a disability. It's like he hit the lottery.::Margaret: He's one lucky guy.
Fiona: It's so derivative it's not even derivative anymore.
Dr. Weinstein: Please don't insult me when I'm trying to insult you.
Every night, Sam's job was at stake...
Being a Vampire's Assistant Sucks
Mrs. Murray: And now, ladies and gentlemen, to kick off tonight's entertainment I am pleased to present Max the magnificent and his equally magnificent assistant Traci Walker.
Mrs. Murray: Max I can't believe it, you made this fundraiser the most successful one the school has ever had. Thank you.
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A myth about ship is of fundamental ones in the Western culture. Film-lecture "Catalogue of ships" is an attempt to draw the history of this myth in all details. It's made of fragments from classical masterpieces of painting, music, cinema and poetry, that were devoted to this universal image.
Voice of poetry: What would the things of Troy, be to you, Achaeans, without Helen?
Voice of poetry: Love... Fame... Happiness! Hell, it's a rock!
Voice of poetry: O Death, old captain, it is time!
Arkadiy Ippolitov: All ships sail to eternity.
Voice of poetry: That which we are, we are.
Voice of poetry: To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Arkadiy Ippolitov: A ship is heroic in its very essence. A sailor is already a hero.
Voice of poetry: All hell is making love. I laugh like a corpse.
Arkadiy Ippolitov: The port is the place where freedom resides.
Voice of poetry: And some in dreams assured were of the Spirit that plagued us so.
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Evil rules the night. It spreads its black hand across the land. No one is safe from its wrath and sooner or later it will devour everyone. One man has made it his purpose to journey into the heart of hell and face the devil himself to take back what is rightfully his. This is the story of Jonathan Harker. This Orlando based team have challenged themselves to create a silent film in HARKER, a puppet short. They have gone to great lengths to re-create the true feeling of a silent movie. Puppets are created with an exceptional visual style, much like the German Expressionists films The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Nosferatu.