Flaherty then agreed to collaborate with F. W. Murnau on another South Seas picture, Tabu, but this combination proved even more volatile, and while Flaherty did contribute significantly to the story, the finished film is essentially Murnau's.

* Tabu, F. W. Murnau, Robert Flaherty, 1931

The two directors knew each through Flaherty's brother David, and Murnau expressed a desire to make a film in Tahiti with Flaherty who had experience with the natives there.

Murnau and Flaherty wrote a story called Turia and started their own production company, Flaherty-Murnau Productions.

Murnau visited Tahiti in May 1929 and was joined by Flaherty a month later to scout for locations on the nearby island of Bora Bora.

This was the start of a poor working relationship between Flaherty and Murnau.

Flaherty worked on the story with Murnau during production, but he was not the co-director as he originally thought he would be.

Flaherty disliked Murnau immensely because of this and the arrogance and selfishness Murnau displayed during production.

A couple of days after the wrap, Flaherty sold his share of the film to Murnau for $ 25, 000.

The distribution rights were sold to Paramount for five years for a sum of $ 75, 000, which helped Murnau pay off Flaherty.

The DVD contains a commentary with R. Dixon Smith and Brad Stevens and a booklet containing essays and the original stories Turia and Tabu by Flaherty and Murnau upon which the film is based.

Murnau travelled to Bora Bora to make the film Tabu in 1931 with documentary film pioneer Robert Flaherty, who left after artistic disputes with Murnau who had to finish the movie on his own.

Together with documentary film pioneer Robert Flaherty, Murnau travelled to Bora Bora to make the film Tabu in 1931.

Flaherty left after artistic disputes with Murnau who had to finish the movie on his own.

Murnau described the films cinematography as being " on account of the way ... were placed or photographed, their image is a visual drama.

Murnau lost the lawsuit and all prints of the film were ordered to be destroyed, but bootleg prints survived.

At that time, films that were very popular internationally, such as " Nosferatu " ( directed by F. W. Murnau, starring actor Max Schreck ), depicted dehumanized forms with very wan complexions, long noses and long ears, and cadaverous body shapes, who drank blood.

After the Night of the Long Knives in June 1934, where SA leaders like Ernst Röhm and left leaning party officials like Gregor Strasser were murdered, Feder began to withdraw from the government, finally becoming a professor at the Technische Hochschule in Berlin in December 1936, where he stayed until his death in Murnau on 24 September 1941.

Due to growing demand, new centres of learning were opened in Murnau and Kochel, the focus of selection being on towns which were small and idyllic and which show post-war Germany at its best.

Murnau uses two cameras, both filming multiple shots ; many scenes were filmed time and again.

There were several versions created of Faust, several of them prepared by Murnau himself.

Among those imprisoned in Murnau were:

On April 27, 1942, all the Poles were transferred to other camps, mostly to Oflag VII-A Murnau.

Apart from Antoni Szylling and Tadeusz Piskor, who were imprisoned in Murnau, all Polish army commanders taken by the Germans in 1939 were held there.

After the Fall of France in 1940, most Polish officers were transferred to either Oflag VIIA Murnau or Oflag VIII E Johannisbrunn, and French officers were imprisoned in the castle.

Münter is most well known for her landscapes, many of which were painted in Murnau.

By September, however, Murnau had only received $ 5, 000 of the due money.

In short order she would become one of Germany's most celebrated film writers, not only because of her partnership with Fritz Lang, but also for writing scripts for F. W. Murnau, Carl Dreyer, E. A. Dupont, and other German luminaries ".

Overall, five versions of Faust are known to exist out of the over thirty copies found across the globe: a German original version ( of which the only surviving copy is in the Danish Film Institute ), a French version, a late German version which exists in two copies, a bilingual version for Europe prepared by UFA, and a version prepared by Murnau himself for MGM and the US market ( July 1926 ).

It is left to the film's other main actor, Gustav von Wangenheim ( Eddie Izzard ) to explain to them that the mysterious lead is apparently an obscure German theater performer named Max Schreck ( Willem Dafoe ), who, according to Murnau, is a highly professional character actor.

Murnau noted that the story was absurd on the grounds that " everyone knows that a washroom attendant makes more than a doorman.

After rereleasing a few silent feature hits, such as Seventh Heaven, with recorded music, Fox came out with its first original Movietone feature on September 23: Sunrise, by acclaimed German director F. W. Murnau.

The film had its premiere on March 18, 1931, a week after Murnau died, at New York's Central Part Theater.

Garbo also commissioned a death mask of Murnau, which she kept on her desk during her years in Hollywood.

Schreck reacts wildly at the sight of the blood, and, urged on by Murnau, tries to drink from Gustav's wound.

When the lights come back on again, Murnau is furious to find Schreck pinning Wolf to the floor, apparently draining his blood.

The troubled production is eventually left stranded on an island in the middle of the North Sea, and Murnau, in a drug-induced stupor, admits to Albin and Fritz Schreck's true nature.

Murnau, Albin, and Fritz are forced to drug her, and Schreck feeds on her while the others film the scene.

Murnau completes the filming and calmly states " I think we have it ", while his rescuers look on at the carnage.

Before Grau and Murnau collaborated on Nosferatu, Grau was planning to create several movies devoted to the occult and supernatural through his studio, Prana Film.

Impressed by Hillier's paintings, the director F. W. Murnau offered him a job as camera assistant on Tabu ( 1931 ), but Hillier's father intervened because of Murnau's homosexuality.

Fortunately, Murnau recommended him to director Fritz Lang at UFA studios, who employed him on his classic M. Soon after he moved to Britain to pursue a career in film.

Murnau is situated on the edge of the Bavarian alps, approx.

Ödön von Horvath spent a large part of his youth and young adulthood there and based some of his most well-known works ( e. g. Jugend ohne Gott, Italienische Nacht ) on happenings during the Third Reich in Murnau.

Ulmer came to Hollywood with Murnau in 1926 to assist with the art direction on Sunrise ( 1927 ).