Zeit der Vampire – Time of the Vampires (English translation)

12 January 1979 · Die Zeit, preserved by filmportal.de

Hans-Christoph Blumenberg

Bram Stoker Estate account · Original source: German

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Blumenberg compares Herzog’s Nosferatu with Murnau’s 1922 film and the legacy of Weimar cinema. He praises Kinski’s melancholy vampire and the plague sequences, while arguing that reverence for the earlier masterpiece sometimes holds Herzog back. This contemporary German review is preserved in full by filmportal.de; the summary here is in English.

Die Zeit, 12 January 1979, as reproduced by filmportal.de. Relevant German text inspected. The Estate supplies an English account, not an authorised complete translation of this copyrighted review.

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