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  • ey bin aus hamburg

  • wonderful and amazing way of another way of living ... there are a lot of ways of LIFE.. heinrich schwarz one of the nPOETHS. danke schön.

  • For my Captain...................<3<3­<3

  • My favorite Herzog film? Probably.

  • Shocked by this actually, just watched it for the first time, very emotive and sad. Makes you think of your own mortality!!

  • Dream worthy atmospheric landscape! Now I have to see this...(heads to Netflix.....if it isn't already on YT).........

  • sorry, just doesn't hold a candle to the original 1922..

  • @TheTitanic4 tryhard hipster comment

  • Lovely music. TY A for posting.

  • I love Wagners Rheingold Prelude. The music fits in the enviroment and its atmosphere...

  • The most atmospheric and beautiful of the vampire movies, in my opinion.

    I like films like Fright Night (original) for their entertainment value, but this is closest to my heart.

  • Immer wieder schön!

  • Liechtensteinklamm, che meraviglia!!!!

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  • At least Harker got in the club/castle, despite his his adidas.

  • nice guide rail by the water fall! Bwa hahahahshahaahafail

  • Epicness.

  • This scene and photography is one of the best of all time in film, along with background music. Very good ........

  • It's like a pilgrimage to a dark god's temple.

  • You know I've seen alot of vampire movies especially ones about Dracula from the famous to the more obscure, but somehow I always felt the menace of the journey to Dracula's castle more than any other version. I guess it's because he's going by foot and we get to see the landscape more, but I just feel the build-up that there's something there in the mountains. It's certainly one of the most beautiful versions and manages to be a great remake and it's own thing too. This scene alone says so much

  • Fuck Netanyahu!

  • Simplesmente M-A-R-A-V-I-L-H-O-S-O!!!

  • Amazing, this film is the height of artistry.

  • Modern vampire movies can kiss my arse,,,,

  • @TheTwilightalehouse arse means what??????

  • @TheTwilightalehouse arse means what??????????

  • @violet792 arse is also called your bottom........backside,,,,,,,,­,,derrier.....

  • @TheTwilightalehouse Here's to the idlers of Twilight!

  • @GordonMorrice yahooo

  • @GordonMorrice Twilight is anaemic.

  • @wandererlain Good pun!

  • @GordonMorrice True, isn't it? The series is about as bloodless as a sunlight-deprived anorexic pink-eyed rat.

  • Ich liebe die Atmosphäre, die Aufnahmen, den Film, Wagners Rheingold und ich liebe es, dass du dieses grandiose Video eingestellt hast :-) Danke!

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  • I contrabbassi suonano in MIb grave con una leggera 'scordatura' - come voleva Wagner - producendo un effetto di 'rumore'.

    I fagotti attaccano sfasati di 2 battute suonando in Sib - che con il Mib - formano la cosiddetta quinta vuota: responsabile di quell'atmosfera di indefinito e misterioso... la natura nel suo fluire primordiale e esoterico.

  • I love the fact that the highest rated comment on here is simply the name of a landscape painter.

  • @mysticblade35 IT'S ARTISTIC OKAY?!

  • @jakethesnake10000 I think it's great, because the sort of person who likes Herzog's films is likely going to be cultured enough to know who Friedrich is, and appreciate the similarities between the works.

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  • @Karosanyo I agree totally, it's a masterpiece 

  • with all the respect to the original

    this is by far much better and poetic

  • Beauty at tis highest point. This was my first experience of Herzog's art. I saw the film at 16, when it was published in a small movie theatre built in an old cellar of stone blocks absolutely corresponding with the atmosphere of the film. I was with my mother and both we were instantly fans of Herzog.

  • It's a shame to have to compare this to the original all the time, but it's impossible when significant events occurr that also happened in Murnau's version. I like this, but it also shows how much more powerfully and directly Murnau did it.

    This is perhaps partly because the modern director is compelled to use equipment which stunts imagination in the viewer.

  • Herzog's remake isn't quite up to par with the original.

    Great scene though.

  • @Raford146 I do love this film because it is so beautiful and atmospheric and the scene where Lucy walks through the town square with all the mad townspeople is something that will stick with me forever. However, my sole criticism of the film is that Kinski's vampire is a pathetic figure rather than a frightening one. I was hoping to be scared and all I felt was pity.

  • @clemdane

    That's not necessarily a bad thing though. It's just not what you expected. You can't criticize something for being something you didn't expect it to be.

    Also, Kinski's vampire not frightening? He brought the plague to Wismar and other new lands, killed hundreds, maybe thousands. He might not have been a typical Hollywood monster, but he was certainly monstrous. Herzog put emphasis on Nosferatu being cursed rather than just evil, making him a sickly creature, which is just as creepy.

  • @PrivateSchemers1 Yes, I actually agree. I had to make the adjustment from thinking it would be a "scary" film to more of a disturbing, sad film. I still love it.

  • It's a great scene, but a really really bad remake of the original Nosferatu

  • @JMillerBayRidge I dont think you qualify as a film critic when your descriptions of movies is "really bad" or "really good"

  • watch the original, this is just a remake.

  • 3 people miss the like button....

  • i love this scene, this and excalibur = wagner #1

  • @iluvgoldfrapp Excalibur was twice the film with Carmana Burana and Parsifal music wrapped in there, imagine that film without them, OK but not as good. Imagine 2001 without the same tracks. Its such a shame that techno and explosions have become standard fare, I like techno and explosions but film needs to be more than Michael Bay. There needs to be more than 4 cookie cutter film types, more than 5 simple outfits a film can wear. Nosferatu is like Nat King Cole, while Twlight is Lady Gaga.

  • There is nothing more to be said.

  • I agree that Nosferatu is on a whole different level than Twilight. I also agree that the Twilight films can be quite stupid. However, I don't think I have a low I.Q. for liking the first film. Sometimes fluff is fun. Deal with it.

  • I saw this film when it came out in 1979. Still the best vampire film ever. Beautiful, sensual, and erotic.

  • An extraordinary use of the Rheingold prelude. Sheer magic!

  • EXTRAORDINARY PIECE OF ART BY HERZOG....KINSKI IS MY FAVORITE VAMPIRE OF ALL TIMES. AMAZING PERFORMANCE.A MUST HAVE FILM

  • This is definitely the best vampire film ever made. What a combination. Wagner, Herzog, Dracula. Perfect. Thanks for posting.

  • This was probably the best of the Nosferatu films. Art of the film at its utmost!

  • As a matter of practical importance, shouldn't there be a road that connects the mountain castle to a village in the valley? How else would goods be transported to the castle?

  • @Calyton21

    No, everyone who wants to reach the castle, has to climb the 2655m Gerlachsdorfer Peak in the High Tatra.

  • @Calyton21 goods dont get transported to the castle. if they were smart they would stay away from the castle and its inhabitant.

  • MAJESTIC FILM!!!

  • Hey krashly71, fuck you - what have you ever done? All you all you do is complain about Twighlight. And I can't "listen" to what's happening on this low budget film, it's done in German and all I can do is read the subtitles, Oh and Klaus looks great with his obviously fake front teeth, as good as Kinski is, a little more work on realism would have made it a lot better. The music is stolen and many of the scenes are right out of the 1922 movie.

  • Master Herzog on the DVD comment reveals that he made a huge battle againts FOX to preserve this very same sequence...he critizices the thendency of the mainstream movie makers of making everything quick-paced...such a beautiful scene like this from twilight to nightfall has a strange force over you as a viewer, like you yourself are on those mountains watching the clouds flow and everything being shrouded in darkness

  • The point is that Herzog back then was right to let this exist withing his work, he conceived a sense of transition from the real and the unreal beneath the shadows, to allow the public to see something rare times in life you're allowed to see and feel; and even better: to make it part of the storytelling.

    He also confesses that if he would make things over again, it might not be the same as slow paced...so we have to be thankful of this man's vision, imagination and determination as artist

  • Twilight fan: I've seen Nosferatu and it's gross. The vampire is bald and ugly and doesn't sparkle and has bad manners.

  • @castingtherunes - well that is what vampires are supposed to be like....duh!!! They're not supposed to be portrayed as photogenic, sulky teenagers.

  • @Chockarblock I know. I'm saying that's what a Twilight fan would say!

  • @castingtherunes - Oh .... my bad ;-) Very witty of you in that case. I must admit I wondered why a Twilighter would buy the Nosferatu soundtrack. I adore the music of Popol Vuh but I have yet to buy it myself.

  • @Chockarblock Other vampire flicks I like are Let The Right One In, Daughters of Darkness, The Reflecting Skin, Martin and Let's Scare Jessica to Death. Now you know for deadly certain that I'm not a Twilight fan!

  • I bought the Nosferatu soundtrack and less than a quarter of the film's music is on it. Most of the album has Indian numbers. Strange. If anyone knows of a proper Nosferatu soundtrack, let me know.

  • Blood was flowing through my veins while this film was being conceived and when it was born unto the screen. I know in my blood that this is the best representation of Bram Stokers Dracula in film that exists. The score, the characters, the locations. everything Herzog details sets up the next scene with purpose and fear. Great experience, we are blessed to have Herzog on this planet.

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  • Fucking Godlike! 

  • Saying Twilight is a joke compared to this has got to be one of the biggest understatements of all time. I was litterally hypnotised by this movie: simply brilliant. The music is almost achingly beautiful. The only flaw in my opinion was the fact the voices were dubbed: that is always distracting, no matter how hard you try to ignore it.Bruno Ganz seems (despite all the great roles he played) always somewhat underrated: The Himmel uber Berlin and Der Untergang are some of his best performances.

  • Like this.

  • I prefer dusk.

  • please don't speak of Twilight on this page. it's ruining the mood

  • It's a poem of images full of romantic references. This is not a movie, it is a literary masterpiece in which the souls of Goethe and Shilling are telling us to believe in the force of Nature.

  • un capolavoro

  • i fucking love the music on the second half of the video

    

  • Thanx for this wonderful upload!!Herzog+Wagner:what a great combination!!!

  • awesome movie, specially the bit at the end where nosferatu fingers that chick with his claw

  • I mean, how beautiful is this!!!

  • a masterpiece...this sort of film would never be made today which is very, very sad

  • @hugodrax71 I think Let the Right One In shows that at least great vampire films can be made, if only by the Germanic races for some reason.

  • i love this movie

  • btw one could see in those clouds a human face and then a wolf, i don't think that i am just imagining this; great vision!

  • @flaminia5 think u should see a doctor mate

  • @MrBrunothedog you need a bit of fantasy to understand what you see

    so use your brains and don't be shy to make silly comments, and so do i

  • anhand der musikwahl könnte man die filmhandlung ungefähr mit dem jahr 1855 datieren

  • @flaminia5

    Ja und Nein. Die Musik dient hier rein atmosphärischen Zwecken. Mit dem mythologischen Hintergrund der Wagner-Oper steht der Dracula-Stoff ja in keinerlei Verbindung. 

  • @StoertebekerClaus sind Sie so sicher? und was sagen Sie zu dem "Sanctus Dominus" am Ende?

  • Did you know that Richard Wagner´s Opera "Das Rheingold" was the role model for Howard Shore´s Soundtrack to the Lord of the Rings movies?

  • Stayed up late on Saturday night to watch this!

  • Dude you've incorrectly set the aspect ratio. This film is 16:9 widescreen. Watch it again in widescreen. It's much better!

  • this movie is so perfect

  • I love this movie !

    Thank you very much for this trailer...with a lot of mystery !!!

    Paysages magnifiques qui me font rêver et sublimer le temps passé !

  • Non smettero' mai di guardare questo film.Mi crea un senso di angoscia e allo stesso tempo lo amo.Grandissimi Herzog,Kinski,Ganz...capolavor­o.

  • Suona come se fosse stato cantato in un monastero budista zen,vedere l`´ultimo samurai...e allo stesso tempo Richard Strauss avesse deciso de comporre Eine Alpine Simphonie.Don`´t you think so?  Juan,desde Sevilla,after the Fair from April¨:baile por sevillanas,Tio Pepe y 36 degrees temperature.

  • I wish the prelude was performed better.

  • I have the original Nosferatu from 1922 and it is great! Is this one worth watching?

  • @swanniG2

    herzog's verison is definitely worth watching, it's a masterpiece

  • @swanniG2 Any Herzog film is worth watching and his interviews are just as engaging.

  • Una de mis favoritas. El paisaje y la música son increíbles y se combinan a la perfección! Dónde fue filmada ésta parte?

  • This was my first Herzog experience when the film was published. I instantly loved it !

  • i must watch this movie

  • Grazie ad Alessandro 1985 per aver pubblicato questo video.

    Un bellissimo film con musiche straordinariamente evocative che poteva scaturire solamente dalla "vecchia" cultura della nostra Europa.

    Dal "Nuovo Mondo" non possono altro che ammirare questo cinema che con poco ottiene il massimo effetto.

  • why is he climbing the waterfall if he could use the road?

    maybe he liked the scenic route

  • Grandissimo film e bellissima colonna sonora. Capolavoro indiscusso del cinema horror.

  • CASPAR DAVID FRIEDRICH

  • This film is about life, not about dead. It is a hymn in praise of love and the life that could be. One of the best movies of the great Herzog!!

  • in lithuania its showin on 0:00 at night and when i watch it that creepy music brrr i little scare

  • One of the best scenes in movie history..

  • This is possible the creepiest beginning ever to a horror movie.

  • Sublime

  • The music at the clips (and the films start) is Brother of Darkness, Sister of Light by Florian Fricke aka POPUL VUH

    Wow he sounds like he got a bat hit of acid that day

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  • No idea how many times I saw this movie in the last 20 years - countless times!

    Interesting - the part, where Harker walks around 1:00, is a place called Partnachglam (a slight drive south from Munich) - used to hang out there (it's even more magnificent in the winter, when snow and ice is around), drinking "Obstler" to keep warm.

    Always had the soundtrack on my mind ... :)

  • @fenriz218

    thanks for the tip! I will drive there and drink some obstler !

  • Prost!

    Wetter ist genau richtig!

  • Awesome!

  • incredible intro! I must see the rest. And also see the original Murnau Nosferatu, which Werner Herzog was clearly alluding to. And come to think of it, there's some "Heart of Darkness" in this like many of his other movies.

  • Wagner's Das Rheingold is a perfect fit in this part the movie.......a very special film

    I have watched it in the bios 78 or 79

  • The contrast of beauty and suspense is haunting, compelling and masterful.

  • Wagner's prelude is breathtaking

  • Maybe the average IQ of viwers has dropped so low its become the standard to produce Twilight level films that no longer challenge viewers and do not require them to think, judge, sympathize, or absorb, they just sit and smile at the colorful shapes like preschoolers at a puppet show. Nosferatu demands a viewer watch, listen, and truly see whats happening, its a work of art. It doesnt bribe you with effects, sex or marketing, it just is. Its sad how stupid people are.

  • Krashly71

    You definitely have a point here. I remember at the end of "No Country for Old Men" how many viewers were grumbling when the lights came up--as if they thought they were going to see Lethal Weapon 9.

    BUT, these films are the result of an artist working in a traditionally "exploitation" genre, and do not really function as mainstream cinema.

    I would say that Hammer's "Horror of Dracula" contains the perfect balance of blood/sex/action in a Dracula film, ...but is it art?

  • Indeed sir, great point.

  • I don't watch vampire movies anymore unless the vampires look like rock stars and know karate (kidding). Interesting choice by Herzog to use a hand held camera here on the intro.

    Check out "Let the Right One In." Its on youtube. Understated and artsy.

  • @krashly71 The movies from Herzog are brilliant. Nosferatu is a tribute to the Mornau's creation. A reborn of german expresionism. I also like "Aguirre" a lot, but I have never seen Fitzcarraldo. I also like Barry Lyndon from S. Kubrick, and Waterloo.

  • @krashly71 You're calling millions of people stupid simply because their line of thinking is different than yours, that implies a sort of ignorance on your part as well.

  • @aryan2687 if you know the nature of the Twilight films you cant possibly argue that fans of it are not intellectually challenged. When Doctor Zhivago gave way to Harry Potter as what constitutes a good film, the world began to die. I dont think people who disagree with me are stupid, just people who find Twilight to be engaging and well written.....In short, its KRAPP.(insert Scottish accent here)

  • @krashly71 Youre absolutely right

  • @krashly71

    Your words were gold how you laid them out. And i Agree completely because art requires thought to provoke further thought.

  • @krashly71

    do not match these two films, its a different style, i like twilight and nosferatu and what will you tell to me now?

  • @krashly71 Humanity is starting to worry me...

    It is clearly that Hollywood is not the place to be if you want to do something valuable.

    I do not pretend to sound like an intellectual but seriously ... no one seems to like thinking, no one reads no one listens to good music no one values good movies, only special fx and a story covered in sugar and colours.

  • @krashly71 it is sad. there is more language in these herzog long shots, than there is in 50 pages of dialogue in some hollywood movies. you make a great point when you speak of films no longer "challenging" their viewers. i fear we are losing our collective imagination in some ways.

  • @bluestate69 Pure poetry man !.

  • Ich bin Graf Dracula.

  • Davvero difficile immaginare un abbinamento migliore di questo fra ambientazione e sottofondo musicale...un autentico capolavoro!

  • 2:58 what a beautiful view along with Rheingold Prelude playing on background.

  • I just despair when I hear Twighlight fans lauding said film as the best vampire film ever. They clearly have never seen Nosferatu.

  • Twilight is made for teenage girls and pop music fans, nosferatu was made for adults with imagination. Twilight is candy, Nosferatu is caviar, appreciated by those with the taste and depth to understand it. Any air-headed teenager can watch twilight, its a pretty boy, brooding music video. Twilight is a joke, a Lindsey Lohan IQ level NOsferatuCant even compare the 2 really..

  • agreed...masterpiece post

  • Caviar isn't deep, it's subtle. ;-)

  • Agreed, but the comparison stands, chicken nuggets vs lobster tail, there is no comparing this work of cinema to modern trash produced for marketing tie-ins and high school crowds. Its like Dr. Zhivago vs Snakes on a Plane, a sane mind doesnt even weigh those 2 films in the same thought process. Its all about the average IQ of the audience, any film can be benchmarked. Citizen Kane requires a 90 to 100 score, High School Musical about 30...Nosferatu about 90-100 to appreciate, Twilight about 35

  • Ha, fair point.

  • @krashly71

    caviar is gross

  • @krashly71 but not just adults, but actaully anybody who actaully know what great films are

  • Can anyone tell me, who is the conducter (and the orchestra) of the Wagner Rheingold Vorspiel, that can be heard from minute 2:55 onwards in this scene? Do answer, please, if You are sure!

  • POR FAVOR PASEN LA PELICULA COMPLETA

  • Grande Herzog, Grandissimo Kinski .....CCCCCinema!!!

  • the city scenes were filmed in Holland, in Delft and Schiedam.the mountain scenes were filmed in the Tatras, Slovakia. Dracula' castle is Orava Castle, also in Slovakia

  • Are you sure Schnurrbert? I read somewhere these country scenes were filmed in Czechoslovakia. I know for sure that the city scenes were shot in Holland.

  • i think its the best most beliveable vampire film made.

    The only reserve i have is the ending..theres no blood ! ..not even one drop! Nosferatu has sucked her dry and theres no blood on his teeth or lips.

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