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Chapters

0:00 Opening titles
1:21 Wisborg: Hutter and Ellen
4:16 Knock's commission
7:30 A journey east
11:59 The inn
17:44 Into the Carpathians
21:57 The phantom coach
22:46 Count Orlok's castle
26:15 Morning in the castle
28:44 Letters and a portrait
33:52 The vampire at the door
36:32 The crypt
39:35 The raftsmen
40:59 Professor Bulwer
45:15 Knock in the asylum
48:32 Ellen waits by the sea
52:36 Hutter rides home
55:04 The death ship
59:52 Arrival in Wisborg
1:03:37 Orlok comes ashore
1:09:23 The plague
1:14:13 The Book of Vampires
1:20:47 Knock escapes
1:24:05 Ellen's sacrifice

0:00 Opening titles

0:00 Nosferatu. A Symphony of Horror.

0:05 After the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker.

0:07 Freely adapted by Henrik Galeen.

0:09 Direction: F. W. Murnau.

0:13 Costumes and Sets: Albin Grau.

0:18 Photography: F. A. Wagner.

0:22 Music: Hans Erdmann.

0:26 Cast:

0:28 Count Orlok: Max Schreck

0:32 Hutter: Gustav v. Wangenheim

0:36 Ellen, his wife: Greta Schroeder

0:40 Harding, a shipowner: G. H. Schnell

0:44 Ruth, his sister: Ruth Landshoff

0:49 Professor Sievers, the town doctor: Gustav Botz

0:55 Knock, a property agent: Alexander Granach

1:01 Professor Bulwer, a Paracelsian: John Gottowt

1:05 A Captain: Max Nemetz

1:08 1st Sailor: Wolfgang Heinz

1:12 2nd Sailor: Albert Venohr

1:15 1st Act.

1:21 Chronicle of the Great Death in Wisborg

1:21 Wisborg: Hutter and Ellen

1:28 anno Domini 1838, by...

1:36 NOSFERATU

1:41 Does this word not sound to you like the midnight cry of the Deathbird.

1:49 Take care in saying it,

1:55 lest life's images fade into shadows, and ghostly dreams rise from

2:03 your heart and nourish themselves on your blood.

2:11 Long have I contemplated the origin and recession

2:16 of the Great Death in my hometown of Wisborg.

2:23 Here is its story:

2:26 There lived in Wisborg Hutter and his young wife Ellen

4:07 Why did you kill them... the lovely flowers...?!

4:16 Knock's commission

4:34 Not so fast, my young friend! No-one outruns his destiny.

4:50 There was also a property agent by the name of Knock—

4:54 the subject of all sorts of rumours.

4:57 One thing was certain: he paid his people well

6:03 Count Orlok — His Lordship... from Transylvania...

6:09 wishes to acquire a beautiful home in our little town...

6:16 You could earn a nice bit of money...

6:25 ...of course the price is a little effort... some sweat

6:34 and perhaps... a little blood...

7:26 He wants a fine, deserted house...

7:30 A journey east

7:42 That house... directly across from yours.

7:46 Offer him that one!

7:51 Travel quickly, travel well, my young friend,

7:55 into the land of the spectres.

8:18 I'm travelling far, far away

8:21 into the land of thieves and spectres.

9:58 So Hutter placed the anguished girl in the care of his friends,

10:08 the rich shipowner Harding and his sister

10:38 Be at ease.

11:31 and young Hutter travelled many dusty roads,

11:35 but at last the peaks of the Carpathians

11:39 loomed before him.

11:43 The horses strained harder

11:59 The inn

12:55 Quickly... something to eat —

12:58 I have to get to Count Orlok's castle!

13:34 You shouldn't go any further now; the Werewolf roams the woods.

15:27 Of Vampyres Gastlie Spirits, Bewitchments

15:32 and the Seven Deadlie Sins

15:39 From Belial's seed sprang the vampyre NOSFERATU,

15:45 who doth live and feed on the bloode of humankind —

15:52 Beyonde deliverance he doth dwell in gastlie caves,

15:57 sepulchres and coffins, filled so with god-curst earth

16:02 from the fields of the Black Death

17:23 Of Vampyres Gastlie Spirits, Bewitchments

17:26 and the Seven Deadlie Sins

17:44 Into the Carpathians

18:48 Onward! The sun is setting!

19:19 Offer what you like! We're not going any further!

19:39 We won't go on! It's frightening beyond the pass!

20:15 No sooner had Hutter stepped across the bridge,

20:20 than the eerie visions he had often told me about

20:26 seized hold of him.

21:57 The phantom coach

Nothing is said in this chapter.

22:46 Count Orlok's castle

23:32 You have kept me waiting — waiting too long. —

23:38 Now it is nearly midnight. The servants are sleeping!

24:00 End of the 1st Act.

24:02 Nosferatu 2nd Act.

25:04 You have hurt yourself... Precious blood!

25:36 Shouldn't we like to sit together a bit, dear friend?

25:44 It is a while still till sunrise — and in the daytime I sleep,

25:54 my dear fellow, I sleep the deepest of sleeps —

26:15 Morning in the castle

26:16 Just as the sun rose,

26:21 the shadows of the night withdrew from Hutter as well

28:44 Letters and a portrait

28:45 My dear! My dearest!

28:49 Grieve not that thy beloved is so far away

29:05 I am plagued by mosquitoes.

29:10 I already have two bites on my throat,

29:16 one quite near the other, on each side

29:29 One dreams so heavily in this desolate castle,

29:36 but fear not.

30:23 The spectral evening light seemed to revive the shadows

30:30 of the castle once more

31:12 Your wife has a lovely neck...

31:28 I shall buy the house...

31:31 The fine, deserted house opposite yours...

32:08 At night this same Nosferatu doth clutch his victim

32:13 and doth suck like hellish life-potion its blood.

32:24 Take heede that his shadow not encumber thee

32:31 like an incubus with gruesome dreams

33:52 At the same hour.

33:52 The vampire at the door

34:54 A doctor... a doctor!

36:28 Harmless congestions of the blood.

36:32 The crypt

36:33 The doctor related Ellen's distress to me

36:37 as an unknown illness.

36:40 I know, however, that her soul that night

36:44 caught the cry of the Deathbird —

36:47 Nosferatu was already spreading his wings. —

36:51 Yet with the morning light Hutter set out

36:55 to make sense of the horror of his nights. —

39:35 The raftsmen

40:30 The raftsmen didn't know what kind of unholy cargo

40:35 they were conveying through the dale.

40:57 End of the 2nd Act.

40:59 Professor Bulwer

40:59 Nosferatu 3rd Act.

41:14 He was brought to the hospital yesterday by some farmers.

41:19 They said he must have fallen. He's still feverish...

41:39 Coffins —

41:48 Nosferatu was on his way. The danger for Wisborg drew nigh.

41:53 The Paracelsian Professor Bulwer,

41:57 who at that time was studying the secrets of nature

42:01 and their deepest unifying principles,

42:05 told me the following:

42:09 Earth-filled coffins were to be loaded

42:13 onto the double-masted ship, the Empusa

42:32 The vessel's still set for sail tonight.

42:48 Bill of Lading: EMPUSA

42:53 Route: from GALAZ to WISBORG

42:57 Cargo: 6 crates of earth (experimental purposes)

44:02 In those days, I should note, Prof. Bulwer was explaining

44:11 to his students the cruel habits of carnivorous plants.

44:21 They observed in horror nature's mysterious ways.

45:12 Like a vampire — isn't it?

45:15 Knock in the asylum

45:20 It seems that the approach of the strangler, Nosferatu,

45:24 already compelled the property agent Knock

45:29 into his shadow.

45:40 The patient admitted yesterday is going mad...

46:18 Blood is life! Blood is life!!!!

46:58 And this one here...

47:04 ...a polyp with tentacles...

47:19 ...transparent... almost incorporeal...

47:32 ...almost but a phantom...

47:46 Spiders...!

48:19 Ellen was often seen on the beach

48:23 within the solitude of the dunes.

48:26 Yearning for her beloved,

48:29 her eyes scanned waves and distance alike.

48:32 Ellen waits by the sea

50:23 My dear! My dearest!

50:28 Grieve not that thy beloved is so far away

50:39 I am plagued by mosquitoes.

50:41 I already have two bites on my throat,

50:45 one quite near the other, on each side

50:53 One dreams so heavily in this desolate castle,

50:55 but fear not.

51:29 No I must go... by the shortest route home!!!

52:36 Hutter rides home

53:11 PLAGUE. A plague epidemic has broken out

53:16 in Transylvania and the Black Sea ports

53:20 of Varna and Galaz.

53:26 All victims exhibit the same peculiar stigmata on the neck,

53:31 the origin of which still puzzles the doctors.

53:37 The Dardanelles were closed to all ships

53:42 suspected of carrying the plague.

55:00 A sailor's fallen ill below deck. He's delirious.

55:04 The death ship

56:31 It spread through the ship like an epidemic.

56:35 The first stricken sailor pulled the entire crew

56:38 after him into the dark grave of the waves.

56:42 In the light of the sinking sun,

56:45 the captain and ship's mate

56:49 bid farewell to the last of their comrades.

57:21 I'm going below!!! If I'm not back up in ten minutes...

59:39 The ship of death had acquired its new captain.

59:51 End of the 3rd Act.

59:52 Arrival in Wisborg

59:53 Nosferatu 4th Act.

59:54 It's quite difficult to say how, despite his depleted strength,

59:58 young Hutter succeeded in surmounting the obstacles

1:00:01 on his voyage home — —meanwhile, Nosferatu's

1:00:03 deadly breath swelled the sails of the ship,

1:00:05 which flew on toward its destination with ghostly haste.

1:01:37 I must go to him. He's coming!!!

1:03:35 The master is near... The master is near...!

1:03:37 Orlok comes ashore

1:04:48 Long have I pondered why Nosferatu was said

1:04:53 to have travelled with earth-filled coffins.

1:04:59 I found it recorded that vampyres

1:05:04 can only draw their shadowy strength

1:05:10 from the accursed earth

1:05:16 in which they were buried.

1:07:36 Thank God... you're safe... All's well now...

1:09:18 Looked over everything... Not a living soul on board.

1:09:23 The plague

1:10:23 Varna — 12 July

1:10:26 Crew — minus myself as captain: one helmsman;

1:10:30 one ship's mate; five sailors

1:11:37 Second day — 13 July one sailor ill with fever

1:11:43 Course: SSW Wind: NE

1:11:46 Third day — 14 July ship's mate is babbling

1:11:53 claims strange passenger is below deck

1:12:01 Course: SE Wind: NE

1:12:10 Tenth day — 22 July

1:12:16 rats in ship's hold danger of plague

1:12:30 Danger of plague!! Go home!

1:12:33 Shut all windows and doors!

1:13:25 PROCLAMATION

1:13:28 It is hereby decreed that the honourable magistrate

1:13:33 of this town forbids the populace to transport

1:13:37 the ill or plague-stricken to the hospital,

1:13:41 lest the plague spread through the streets.

1:14:12 End of the 4th Act.

1:14:13 The Book of Vampires

1:14:14 Nosferatu 5th Act.

1:15:24 Hutter made Ellen swear not to touch the book

1:15:31 which had frightened him with its visions. —

1:15:38 Yet she could not resist its bizarre attraction.

1:15:48 At night this same Nosferatu doth clutch his victim

1:15:52 and doth suck like hellish life-potion its blood.

1:16:13 Take heede that his shadow not encumber thee

1:16:20 like an incubus with gruesome dreams

1:16:26 Wherefore no other salvation is possible,

1:16:33 but that a maiden wholly without sin

1:16:40 maketh the Vampyre forget the first crow of the cock.

1:16:47 Would that she give freely of her blood

1:17:19 This is what I see — each evening...!!!

1:18:40 Fear lurked in every corner of the town.

1:18:46 Who was still well? Who already ill?

1:19:00 I'll run over there quickly... I'll fetch Sievers...

1:20:15 Wherefore no other salvation is possible,

1:20:22 but that a maiden wholly without sin

1:20:29 maketh the Vampyre forget the first crow of the cock.

1:20:36 Would that she give freely of her blood

1:20:47 Knock escapes

1:20:51 The panic-stricken town was looking for a victim:

1:20:56 it was Knock.

1:21:08 Someone saw him! He ran outside!

1:21:13 He strangled the custodian...

1:21:25 He strangled him... the vampire!

1:22:37 I LOVE YOU

1:24:05 Ellen's sacrifice

1:26:15 Bulwer! Fetch Bulwer!

1:28:09 Knock has been captured!

1:28:54 The master... the master...!

1:30:10 The master... is... dead.

1:31:29 witness the miracle on the heels of the truth:

1:31:31 at that very hour,

1:31:34 the Great Death came to an end, and as if confronted

1:31:38 by the victorious radiance of the living sun,

1:31:41 the shadow of the Deathbird was dispersed.

1:31:52 End.