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![Murnau, F.W](/images/f-w-murnau.jpg) Murnau, F.W |
Date of birth
28 December 1888, Bielefeld, North-Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Date of death
11 March 1931, Santa Barbara, California, USA
F.W. Murnau (December 28, 1888 - March 11, 1931)
German film director, b. as Friedrich W. Plumpe. He began directing films in Germany in 1919 and went to Hollywood in 1927.
Murnau's films, especially those made in collaboration with writer Carl Meyer, are noted for their fluid, expressionistic use of the camera to depict states of mind, an alternative stylistic model to the editing-centered works of Sergei Eisenstein. His best-known works are:
Nosferatu (1922) The Last Laugh (1924) Faust (1926)
and the American films:
Sunrise (1927) Our Daily Bread (1930) Tabu (1931)
“Our battle, our struggle, is to create art. Our weapon is the moving picture...we are scientists engaged in the creation of memory... but our memory will neither blur nor fade.”
Selected filmography of
Murnau, F.W
1927
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
1922
Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922)
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