"NOSFERATU A SYMPHONY OF HORROR" "Based on the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker" "Adapted by Henrik Galeen." "DIRECTOR:" "COSTUMES AND SETS:" "CINEMATOGRAPHY:" "MUSIC:" "CAST:" "COUNT ORLOK" "HUTTER" "ELLEN, HIS WIFE" "HARDING, A SHIP OWNER" "RUTH, HIS SISTER" "PROFESSOR SIEVERS, THE TOWN DOCTOR" "KNOCK, AN ESTATE AGENT" "PROFESSOR BULWER, A PARACELSIAN" "A SHIP CAPTAIN" "SAILOR 1" "SAILOR 2" "Act I" "Account of the Great Death in Wisborg, anno Domini 1838." "Nosferatu" "Does this word not sound like the death bird calling your name at midnight?" "." "Beware you never say it for then the pictures of life will fade to shadows, haunting dreams will climb forth from your heart and feed on your blood." "I have reflected at length on the origin and passing of the Great Death in my hometown of Wisborg." "Here is its story:" "There once lived in Wisborg a man named Hutter and his young wife,Ellen." ""Why did you kill them..." "these beautiful flowers?"" ""Not so fast, my young friend!" "No one can outrun their fate!"" "There was an estate agent, Knock, about whom all sorts of rumors were going around." "The only thing for certain was that he paid his people well." ""Count Orlok, His Grace... from Transylvania... wishes to purchase a nice house in our little town..!"" ""You could earn a tidy sum..!"" "You might have to go to a bit of trouble... a little sweat and maybe..." "a little blood." ""He wants a very nice, empty house..!"" ""That house... across from yours." "Offer him that one!"" ""Off with you!" "Have a good trip, my young friend... to the land of phantoms!"" ""I must travel far, far away, to the land of thieves and phantoms!"" "Thus Hutter entrusted his anxious wife to the care of his friends, the wealthy ship owner Harding and his sister." ""Don't worry!"" "...and young Hutter traveled down countless dusty roads, until finally the Carpathians gleamed above him." "The horses pulled harder." ""Quickly... bring my dinner" "I'm on my way to Count Orlok's castle!"" ""You can't go any further tonight." "The werewolf is roaming the forests!"" "Of Vampyres, terrible Phantomes and The Seven Deadly Sins." "From Belial's seed sprang the Vampyre Nosferatu, who liveth and feedeth on human bloode." "This unholy creature liveth in sinister caves, tombes and coffins, which are filled with cursed dirt from the fields of The Black Death." "Of Vampyres, terrible Phantomes and The Seven Deadly Sins." ""Get a move on!" "It"s getting dark!"" ""Pay what you will, we stop here!"" ""We won't go!" "We've got a bad feeling about heading over the pass!"" "As soon as Hutter crossed the bridge he was seized by the eerie visions he so often told me of..." ""You have kept me waiting -too long" "It's almost midnight." "The servants are asleep!"" "End of Act I" "Act II" ""You've hurt yourself..." "the precious blood!"" ""Can we not stay together a little while longer, my lovely man?" "It's still quite a long time until sunrise and I sleep by day, dear fellow." "I'm completely dead to the world..!"" "As soon as the sun rose, the shadows of the night retreated from Hutter." "My darling!" "Dearest!" "Do not be troubled that your beloved is far away." "...the mosquitoes are a terrible nuisance." "Two just bit me on the neck, side by side, quite close together..." "One dreams deeply in this desolate castle, but don't let that frighten you." "The ghostly evening light seemed to bring the castle shadows to life again." ""Your wife has a lovely neck..!"" "I'm buying the house... that nice, deserted house across from yours..." "At night that same Nosferatu digs his claws into his victims and suckles himself on the hellish elixir of their bloode." "Beware that his shadow does not engulf you like a daemonic nightmare." "Meanwhile..." ""Ellen!"" ""A doctor... get a doctor!"" ""Hutter!"" ""Just a mild case of blood congestion!"" "The doctor described Ellen's anxiety to me as some sort of unknown illness." "But I know that on that night her soul heard the call of the death bird" "Nosferatu was already spreading his wings." "At dawn Hutter set out to investigate the horrors of the previous nights." ""Ellen!" "Ellen!"" "The raftsmen were oblivious of the strange cargo they piloted downstream." "End of Act II" "Act III" ""He was brought to the hospital yesterday by farmers." "They said he had fallen." "He still has a fever..!"" ""Coffins..!"" "Nosferatu was coming." "Danger was on its way to Wisborg." "Professor Bulwer, a Paracelsian, who at this time was investigating the secrets of nature and its unifying principles, told me about it:" "Caskets filled with dirt were loaded onto the double-masted schooner,Empusa." ""The ship sets sail tonight!"" "Port Authority Galaz." "Bill of Lading for the Ship Empusa." "Route:" "Galaz to Wisborg." "Port of Embarkation:" "Varna." "Cargo: 6 crates of dirt for experimental purposes." "Galaz, August 17, 1838" "I should note that in those days" "Professor Bulwer was teaching his students about the dreadful methods of carnivorous plants." "One viewed with horror the mysterious workings of nature." ""Like a vampire, no?"" "As the predator Nosferatu approached, it seems that the estate agent,Knock, had already begun to fall under his spell." ""The patient who was admitted yesterday has gone stark raving mad..!"" ""Blood is life!" "Blood is life!"" ""And this one here..!"" ""...a polyp with tentacles..!"" ""...transparent... almost ethereal..!"" ""..." "Little more than a phantom..!"" ""Spiders...!"" "Ellen was often spotted on the beach in the solitude of the dunes." "Her eyes scanned the waves and the horizon as she pined for her beloved." "My darling!" "Dearest!" "Do not be troubled that your beloved is far away." "...the mosquitoes are a terrible nuisance." "Two just bit me on the neck, side by side, quite close together..." "One dreams deeply in this desolate castle, but don't let that frighten you." ""No, I must go..." "I must get home as quickly as possible!"" "Plague." "A plague epidemic has broken out in Transylvania and in the Black Sea ports of Varna and Galaz." "Masses of young people are dying." "All victims appear to have the same strange wounds on their necks, the origin of which is still a mystery to doctors." "The Dardanelles have been closed to all ships suspected of carrying the plague." ""A sailor has taken ill below deck." "He"s delirious!"" "It spread like a scourge through the ship." "The first sailor that was infected pulled the whole crew down into a dark, watery grave." "By the light ofthe sinking sun, the captain and first mate said goodbye to the last of their comrades." ""I'm going below!" "If I'm not back up again in ten minutes..!"" "The death ship had a new captain." "End of Act III" "Act IV" "It is difficult to say how the weakened young Hutter was able to overcome all the obstacles of the trip home." "Meanwhile, the deadly breath of Nosferatu filled the sails ofthe ship so that it flew toward its goal with supernatural speed." ""I must go to him." "He"s coming!"" ""The master is near..." "The master is near...!"" "I have wondered for a long time why it was said that Nosferatu took his coffins with him filled with dirt." "I have surmised that vampires can only draw their shadowy strength from the cursed earth in which they were buried." ""Thank God... you're unhurt..." "All is now well..!"" ""We've looked everywhere..." "Not a living soul on board!"" "Varna - 12 July." "Crew -besides myself, the captain- one helmsman, one ship's mate, five sailors." "Day 2: 13 July." "One sailor has taken ill with fever." "Heading:" "SSW." "Wind direction:" "NE." "Day 3: 14 July." "Mate is talking nonsense, claims an unknown passenger is below deck." "Heading:" "SE." "Wind direction:" "NE." "Heading:" "SE." "Wind direction:" "NE." "Day 10: 22 July." "Rats in the hold of the ship." "Danger of plague." ""Danger of plague!" "Return to your homes!" "Bolt all windows and doors!"" "Proclamation:" "Be it hereby decreed that the municipal authorities forbid the citizenry to transport the suspected plague-stricken to the hospital, as this shall only spread the plague through the streets of our town." "End of Act IV" "Act V" "Hutter had made Ellen promise not to touch the book which had caused him such frightening visions." "But she found its strange force irresistible." "At night that same Nosferatu digs his claws into his victims and suckles himself on the hellish elixir of their bloode." "Beware that his shadow does not engulf you like a daemonic nightmare." "Deliverance is possible by no other means, but that an innocent maiden maketh the vampyre heed not the first crowing of the cock, this done by the sacrifice of her own bloode..." ""That is what I look at, every night!"" "Fear lurked in every corner of town." "Who was still healthy?" "Who was sick?" ""I'll run over quickly..." "I'll fetch Sievers..!"" "Deliverance is possible by no other means, but that an innocent maiden maketh the vampyre heed not the first crowing of the cock, this done by the sacrifice of her own bloode..." "The town was paralyzed by fear." "They were looking for a sacrifice:" "they chose Knock." ""People saw him!" "He fled from the house!" "He strangled the guard!"" "He strangled him... he's a vampire!" "I LOVE YOU" ""Bulwer!" "Get Bulwer!"" ""They caught Knock!"" ""The master... the master...!"" ""The master... is... dead!"" ""Hutter!"" "...and the truth bore witness to the miracle:" "at that very moment the Great Death came to an end, and the shadow of the death bird was gone... as if obliterated by the triumphant rays of the living sun." "The End"