‘Nosferatu’ opens in Berlin 90 years ago today (1922)

(Saturday, March 4, 1922)Nosferatu, an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, with names and other details changed because the studio could not obtain the rights to the novel, opened today in Berlin.

Directed by F. W. Murnau, the classic German Expressionist horror film stars Max Schreck as the vampire Count Orlok.