Il vampiro sublime. Da “Dracula” a due “Nosferatu”

Although Bram Stoker’s "Dracula" (1897) was a source of inspiration for Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau’s "Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens" (1921), the latter drew on the former in free and unconventional ways. As a result, Murnau’s portrait of the fight between Good and Evil is more complex than Stocker’s. In his 1978 remake, "Nosferatu – Phantom der Nacht", Werner Herzog thoroughly changed the moral of the novel