F. W. Murnau
Personal Info
Know For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1888-12-28 (43 years old)
Deathday
1931-03-11
Place of Birth
Bielefeld, North-Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Also known As
Friedrich Wilhelm Plumpe
Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
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Фрідріх Вільгельм Мурнау
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F. W. Murnau
Biography
Friedrich Wilhelm “F. W.” Murnau (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. Although some of Murnau’s films have been lost, most still survive. While the horror film Nosferatu (1922) is his most famous work, the romantic melodrama Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) is his critically most acclaimed; the British Film Institute's 2012 Sight & Sound critics' poll named it the fifth-best film in the history of motion pictures. Murnau's characteristics are an atmospheric imagery and an innovati...
Acting
1927
as Dancer (uncredited)
2008
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2003
as Himself (archive footage)
2002
as Himself (archive footage)
1924
as Self
1928
as Self
Production
1931
as Producer
1931
as Director
1931
as Screenplay
1927
as Director
1922
as Director
1926
as Director
1920
as Director
1924
as Director
1921
as Director
1921
as Director
1930
as Director
1922
as Director
1924
as Director
1926
as Director
1922
as Director
1921
as Director
1922
as Director
1928
as Director
2016
as Thanks
1923
as Director
1919
as Director
1920
as Director
1924
as Writer
1920
as Director
1920
as Director
1998
as Director
1940
as Director
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