Harker goes to Count Dracula's castle to negotiate the purchase of a house. Everyone tries to persuade him to change his mind, but he is afraid of neither vampires nor mysteries.
For Herzog, Nosferatu becomes almost a messianic and mysterious revelation, a mysterious figure whose immortality necessarily translates into a condemnation to endless solitude. In a world of feelings as mortal as the hearts that nourish them, the vampire takes on (thanks also to Klaus Kinski's chameleon-like performance) the tragic stature of a man condemned to outlive his own need for love. Sadness in Evil. And in this charge of truth intensified by pain, the monster ultimately unleashes beneath our feet one of the greatest visions of nightmare and anguish that the Munich director has yet been able to offer us.
The screening is part of the Werner Herzog: Signs of Life retrospective, organized in collaboration with Mabuse Cineclub.
