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F. W. Murnau

Directing Born 28 Dec 1888 Died 11 Mar 1931 — at 42.2 Bielefeld, North-Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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 wor...

Latest credit Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)