Documentary made in two parts by Luciano Berriatúa. This first part focuses on childhood, personal life and the early works in films by German director F.W. Murnau.
Direction
Berriatúa's scholarly passion without the dusty aftertaste.
Production
Rare surviving fragments from Murnau's lost early films.
Director
Luciano Berriatúa
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Murnau's birth name was Friedrich Wilhelm Plumpe — he ditched it for sounding too bubbly for a serious artist.
Most of Murnau's pre-Nosferatu films are considered lost; Berriatúa spent decades hunting surviving fragments across Eastern European archives.
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