He took the name " Murnau " from the town in Germany named Murnau am Staffelsee.

As of 2007, there are about 80 helicopters named after Saint Christopher, like Christoph Europa 5 ( also serving Denmark ), Christoph Brandenburg or Christoph Murnau am Staffelsee.

* Christoph Probst ( born 6 November 1919 in Murnau am Staffelsee: executed 22 February 1943 in Munich ) was a student of medicine and a member of the White Rose ( Weiße Rose ) resistance group.

The young Horváth went to high school in Bratislava and Vienna, where he was taught German-this not being his native tongue-beginning in 1913, and where he also earned his Matura ( high school diploma ), before finally re-joining his parents at Munich ( more precisely at Murnau am Staffelsee, near Munich ), where, from 1919, he studied at the Ludwig Maximilians University.

Later, he lived in Salzburg and Murnau am Staffelsee in Upper Bavaria.

After he was liberated from the Oflag VII-A Murnau POW camp in Murnau am Staffelsee, Germany, by the American forces he joined the Polish Army in the West.

Faust was Murnau's last German movie, and directly afterward he moved to the US under contract to William Fox to direct Sunrise ( 1927 ); when the film premiered in the Ufa-Palast am Zoo of Berlin, Murnau was already shooting in Hollywood.

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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.

The Last Laugh () is a German 1924 silent film directed by German director F. W. Murnau from a screenplay written by Carl Mayer.

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

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 is portrayed by John Malkovich.

In the film, Murnau is so dedicated to making the film genuine that he actually hires a real vampire ( Willem Dafoe ) to play Count Orlok.

( translated as Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror ; or simply Nosferatu ) is a classic 1922 German Expressionist horror film, directed by F. W. Murnau, starring Max Schreck as the vampire Count Orlok.

The film is a fictionalized account of the making of the classic vampire film Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens, directed by F. W. Murnau, in which the film crew begin to have disturbing suspicions about their lead actor.

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.

After filming the beginning scenes of his film in a sound stage with his leading actress, Greta Schroeder ( Catherine McCormack ) who is incredibly displeased about having to leave Berlin, Murnau and his team travel to the remote inn where they will be staying and shooting further scenes for the picture.

The film's producer, Albin Grau ( Udo Kier ) however, suspects that Schreck is not really a German theater actor, and is confused when Murnau tells him that he in fact found Schreck in the old castle.

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

It is revealed that Schreck is in fact a true vampire who Murnau has made a deal with, in order to create the most realistic vampire film possible.

Schreck has been promised Greta as a prize for completeing his role in the film, but he remains difficult and uncooperative with the fanatical Murnau, until the entire production is at his mercy, and in danger of ruin.

With Wolf close to death, Murnau is forced to bring in another cinematographer from Berlin, Fritz Arno Wagner ( Cary Elwes ) in order to continue filming.

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.

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 ).

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

Murnau is a minor train hub, since it is the place where the Munich-Garmisch-Partenkirchen and the Oberammergau train lines intersect.