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.

He did set design for Max Reinhardt's theater, served his apprenticeship with F. W. Murnau, and worked with directors including Robert Siodmak, Billy Wilder, Fred Zinnemann and cinematographer Eugen Schüfftan, inventor of the Schüfftan process.

" Years later Karl Freund dismissed Murnau's contributions to the films that they made together, claiming that Murnau had no interest in lighting and never looked through the camera, and that " Carl Mayer used to take much more interest than he did in framing.

Returning to Los Angeles, Murnau spent the winter editing the film and used the last of his money to hire Hugo Riesenfeld for the music scoring.

Murnau is used as a health resort by many guests.

Schreck kills both Fritz and Albin while Murnau ( now completely insane ,) continues to operate the camera.

Hitchcock had clearly been watching contemporary films by Murnau and Lang, whose influence can be seen in the ominous camera angles and claustrophobic lighting.

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.

Director F. W. Murnau was at the height of his film career in Germany and had high ambitions for his first film with UFA.

Her performances in Seventh Heaven ( the first of twelve movies she would make with actor Charles Farrell ) and both Sunrise, directed by F. W. Murnau, and Street Angel ( in 1927, also with Charles Farrell ) earned her the first Academy Award for Best Actress in 1928.

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.

After a series of telegrams asking for the rest of the money, Murnau got fed up and decided to fund the film himself.

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.

Their villa was often turned into a stage for little plays, directed by Murnau, who already read books of Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Shakespeare and Ibsen plays at the age of 12.

Their poor receptions disillusioned Murnau, and he quit Fox to journey for a while in the South Pacific.

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.

Further strange things happen as Gustav discovers a bottle of blood in amongst the team's food supplies, and Murnau delivers a caged ferret to a derelict cellar in the middle of the night, apparently as food for a strange creature.

One night, Murnau rushes his team up to the main setting for his film, an old Slovak castle, for the first scene with the vampire.

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.

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 ".

Even Murnau did not hesitate to declare his contempt for the picture.

Murnau, who was also resident at Fox at this time, he developed his own style of lushly visual romanticism in a hugely successful series of films starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell, including Seventh Heaven ( 1927 ), for which he won the first Academy Award for Directing, Street Angel ( 1928 ) and Lucky Star ( 1929 ).

) for the Schloßmuseum des Marktes Murnau, Murnau, 2000

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 ).

German film director F. W. Murnau had recently made The Last Laugh and Sunrise and was the most critically acclaimed director in Hollywood, and Hawks's attempted to imitate Murnau's style with this film.

* Phantom ( 1922 film ), a silent movie directed by F. W. Murnau

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 self-deluded lead characters in many expressionist films echo Goethe's Faust, and Murnau indeed retold the tale in his film Faust.

Murnau, German film director ( d. 1931 )

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

" Murnau called screenwriter Carl Mayer someone who worked in " the true domain of the cinema " and agreed to make The Last Laugh after Mayer and film director Lupu Pick fought and Pick left the film.

The film was a major critical and financial success and allowed Murnau to make two big budget films shortly afterwards.

Murnau Foundation released a digitally restored version of the film in 2002.

Murnau ; with the exception of the opening scene, the film was directed solely by Murnau.

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.

To cut costs, Murnau sent the Hollywood crew home and trained the natives to work as the film crew.

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

The film was not a box office success upon release, grossing just $ 472, 000 worldwide, which failed to recoup Murnau and Paramount's investment.

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.

Friedrich Wilhelm " F. W ." Murnau ( born Friedrich Wilhelm Plumpe ; December 28, 1888 – March 11, 1931 ) was one of the most influential German film directors of the silent era, and a prominent figure in the expressionist movement in German cinema during the 1920s.