An unauthorized production of Bram Stoker's work (The legal heirs didn't
give their permission), so the names had to be changed. But this wasn't
enough: The widow of Bram Stoker won two lawsuits (1924 and 1929) in
which she demanded the destruction of all copies of the movie, however
happily copies of it were already too widespread to destroy them all.
Later, Universal studios could break her resistance against this movie.
Count Orlok's move to Wisburg (Obviously the real "Wismar") brings the
plague traceable to his dealings with the Realtor Thomas Hutter, and the
Count's obsession with Hutter's wife, Ellen the only one with the power
to end the evil.A long time ago in middle Europe, a decrepit, forbidding castle stood...
Casting an ominous shadow over the townspeople who dare not look upon
it, the unholy dwelling is home to one Count Orlok (Max Schreck) , an
undead night creature with a taste for human blood.
Into this
picture steps Hutter, an unwary traveler who visits the Count. He
carries with him the deed for a property Orlock wishes to buy in
Hutter's home town of Wisborg.
That night, in preparation for the
long sea voyage ahead, the vampire hastily loads his coffin aboard ship
and waits...
Once at sea, Orlock bares his fangs and upon
arrival in Wisborg, leaves behind a floating morgue. Now, preparing to
feast on the citizens, the cadaveous Count, prowls the darkness as the
eerie Nosferatu.
