Germany 1922Language:Silent with German intertitlesDirector:Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauWriter:Henrik (Heinrich) GaleenCinematographer:Fritz Arno WagnerMusic:Richard Siedhoff (Orgelbegleitung)With:Max Schreck, Alexander Granach, Greta Schroeder, Georg HeinrichProducer:Albin Grau, Enrico DieckmannProduction Company:Prana Film GmbH94 min, Black and white

Count Orlok wants to buy a beautiful, deserted house in the small town of Wisborg in Northern Germany. Estate agent Hutter travels to the Carpathian Mountains in order to conclude the contract. The count falls in love with the beautiful Ellen, Hutter’s fiancée, and brings terror to the town of Wisborg. NOSFERATU (1922) is the classic horror film par excellence. Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau’s groundbreaking - but unauthorised - adaptation of Bram Stoker’s novel “Dracula” is a journey into the subconscious, into the realm of hidden fears and desires - a journey that is as beautiful as it is eerie. Richard Siedhoff interprets NOSFERATU on the organ in the Gothic Petrikirche (church of Saint Petri).

Prof. Dr. Michael Grisko (Managing Director of the Richard Borek Foundation, university professor, publicist and curator) will give an introduction to the film before the concert begins.

The silent film concert is sponsored by the Richard Borek Foundation.

Director's Biography:Director’s biography: Richard Siedhoff, born in Weimar in 1987, is the leading silent-film pianist and composer of his generation. Siedhoff’s arrangement of the original symphonic score to DER GOLEM, WIE ER IN DIE WELT KAM (THE GOLEM: HOW HE CAME INTO THE WORLD) (1920) was played at the opening of the 35th BIFF. This time, he is attending as a guest with his mobile 16mm cinema and his own copy of the first restoration of the film.