I remember seeing this movie about twenty years ago, feeling scared by the sinister looks of Klaus Kinsky in this alternative interpretation of Bram Stoker's immortal novel.
I have asked myself why Harker's wife's name is Lucy instead of Mina, or Wilhelmina, Harker, just like in the novel and in the other Dracula motion pictures. I say it is alternative because of Herzog's choices of names, location and plot, which swerves a bit from the original story. For instance, Wismar was never the city where Jonathan Harker and his fiancée lived but rather London and the book certainly didn't portray Harker adventuring himself through the Carpatians on a horse. I must say though that it was entertaining, I dare say that its different plot structure was capturing, probably because I have seeing Christopher Lee and Gary Oldman playing as the Count, following Stoker's lines as much as possible.
Photography was OK and music appropriate. Costumes were very realistic and, although I haven't seen Isabelle Adjani and Bruno Ganz act in any other movie, I feel at ease saying that they both played the "unusual" Harkers well. Let's keep in mind though that Nosferatu may not be understood well by viewers today.
I have asked myself why Harker's wife's name is Lucy instead of Mina, or Wilhelmina, Harker, just like in the novel and in the other Dracula motion pictures. I say it is alternative because of Herzog's choices of names, location and plot, which swerves a bit from the original story. For instance, Wismar was never the city where Jonathan Harker and his fiancée lived but rather London and the book certainly didn't portray Harker adventuring himself through the Carpatians on a horse. I must say though that it was entertaining, I dare say that its different plot structure was capturing, probably because I have seeing Christopher Lee and Gary Oldman playing as the Count, following Stoker's lines as much as possible.
Photography was OK and music appropriate. Costumes were very realistic and, although I haven't seen Isabelle Adjani and Bruno Ganz act in any other movie, I feel at ease saying that they both played the "unusual" Harkers well. Let's keep in mind though that Nosferatu may not be understood well by viewers today.