F.W. Murnau

8.7	Listal rating

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Birth Name: Friedrich Wilhelm Plumpe

Born: 28 December 1888 Died: 11 March 1931

Country of origin: Germany

Height: 6' 9"

Ethnicity: White / Caucasian

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148 votes

Listal's 100 best Directors (The Results) (100 items)
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Published 2 years, 1 month ago

123 comments

102 votes

Directors:The Filmography of... (207 items)
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Published 2 years, 2 months ago

20 comments

65 votes

Ingmar Bergman: opinions (25 items)
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Published 1 year, 9 months ago

4 comments

35 votes

The top-60 directors (60 items)
list by The Wolf

Published 4 years, 1 month ago

10 comments

32 votes

A Death For Every Year (107 items)
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Published 8 months, 2 weeks ago

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About: F.W. Murnau was one of the most influential German film directors of the silent era. A figure in the expressionist movement in German cinema during the 1920s, some of Murnau's films from the silent era have been lost, but most still survive.

Born 1888 (2), Director (2), German (2), Died 1931 (2), Car Crash (2), Died Aged 42 (1), Producer (1), Deceased (1), Writer (1), Silent Cinema (1), Hollywood (1), Horror (1), Expressionist (1), Drama (1), Silent (1), Black And White (1), Adventure (1), Mystery (1), Thriller (1), Filmmaker (1)

Movies directed by

1. Nosferatu (1922)

Rating:

908 Watched

2. Sunrise (1927)

Rating:

8.6

283 Watched

3. Faust (1926)

Rating:

8.3

158 want to see

4. The Last Laugh (1924)

Rating:

8.1

120 Watched

5. Tabu (1931)

Rating:

7.6

71 Watched

View all F.W. Murnau movies (16 more)

Movies

1. Sunrise (1927)

Rating:

8.6

283 Watched

2. Der Film im Film (1925)

Rating:

1 want to see

Movies written by

1. Tabu (1931)

Rating:

7.6

71 Watched

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xolmis added this to a list 3 weeks ago

A Movie for every Director (part. 2) (100 person items)

"Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922) "

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100 Greatest Movie Directors by Digitaldreamdoor (100 person items)

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Best Movie Directors (45 person items)

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Acting up: 10 film directors played on screen (10 person items)

"Played by John Malkovich "

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Silent Film Directors (146 person items)

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Horror Film Directors (33 person items)

"Recommended: - Nosferatu, a Symphony of Horror (1922) - Faust (1926)"

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We Love Fedora Hat (43 person items)

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Directors Index (79 person items)

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A Death For Every Year (107 person items)

" Friedrich Wilhelm alive Friedrich Wilhem dead Car accident."

Liaison added this to a list 9 months ago

Favorite Directors' Quotes (27 person items)

""Don't act - think!""

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Matthew Takes on the Pantheon of Important Directo (40 person items)

"The best director of the silent era by a relatively wide margin"

Mr. Saturn added this to a list 11 months ago

Favorite Filmmakers (53 person items)

" The camera is the director's pencil. It should have the greatest possible mobility in order to record the most fleeting harmony of atmosphere. It is important that the mechanical factor should not stand between the spectator and the film. Filmography"

Mr. Saturn added this to a list 12 months ago

GLBT Artists (71 person items)

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Influentials (63 person items)

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GREATEST DIRECTORS OF ALL TIME by vote+!!!... (71 person items)

"NOSFERATU (1922) "

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My favorite directors (50 person items)

" Favorite film: Seen: *Sunrise - 8/10 *The Last Laugh - 8/10 *Nosferatu - 6/10"

SpG added this to a list 1 year, 3 months ago

SP's Favourite Directors (102 person items)

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Ingmar Bergman: opinions (25 person items)

"I suppose I must have a particular weakness for silent films from the second half of the twenties, before the cinema was taken over by sound. At that time, the cinema was in the process of creating its own language. There was Murnau and The Last Laugh, with Jannings, a film told solely in images with a fantastic suppleness; then his Faust, and finally his masterpiece, Sunrise. Three astonishing works that tell us that Murnau, at the same time as Stroheim in Hollywood, was well on the way to crea"