“Shadow of the Vampire” quotes
(2000)
Title Shadow of the Vampire
Year 2000
Director E. Elias Merhige
Genre Drama, Horror
Year 2000
Director E. Elias Merhige
Genre Drama, Horror
Plot – Director Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau is filming "Nosferatu, the vampire". He's determined to shoot a realistic film and travels so to Czechoslovakia where he hires a real vampire, Max Schreck. During the shooting, the vampire confuses himself with the character and, in a rapture, Schreck kills all the crew members. Murnau doesn't stop the shootings and, in the end, he's satisfied of the performance.
All actors – John Malkovich, Willem Dafoe, Udo Kier, Cary Elwes, Catherine McCormack, Eddie Izzard, Aden Gillett, Nicholas Elliott, Ronan Vibert, Sophie Langevin, Myriam Muller, Milos Hlavac, Marja-Leena Junker, Derek Kueter, Norman Golightly, Patrick Hastert, Sascha Ley, Marie-Paule von Roesgen, Jean-Claude Croes, Christophe Chrompin, Graham Johnston, Orian Williams, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Radica Jovicic
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“Dracula hasn't had servants in 400 years and then a man comes to his ancestral home, and he must convince him that he... that he is like the man. He has to feed him, when he himself hasn't eaten food in centuries. Can he even remember how to buy bread? How to select cheese and wine? And then he remembers the rest of it. How to prepare a meal,...” (continue)(continue reading)
“If it's not in frame, it doesn't exist.”
“- Albin Grau: What is the most wondrous thing you ever saw?
- Henrik Galeen: I once saw Greta Schroeder naked.
- Albin Grau: That beats ectoplasm!”“Our battle, our struggle, is to create art. Our weapon is the moving picture. Because we have the moving picture, our paintings will grow and recede; our poetry will be shadows that lengthen and conceal; our light will play across living faces that laugh and agonize; and our music will linger and finally overwhelm, because it will have a context...” (continue)(continue reading)
“Tell me how you would harm me - when even I don't know how I could harm myself.”
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