The German police are investigating the theft of the skull director Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, director of Nosferatu (1922), among many other classics in a cemetery near Berlin. The disappearance was detected on Monday, but it is estimated that the desecration of the tomb took place between the 4th and the 12th of this month, the director of the cemetery Sathnsdorf, Olaf Ihlefeldt, he told the daily Bild. The tomb seems to have been opened with a crowbar and shuffled the mobile would be a satanic ritual, says the daily, since over the grave wax residue were found.
Bild recovers the macabre film legend forever He put a Nosferatu , especially those who claimed that his protagonist, Max Schreck was a real vampire, not an actor. Schreck died unexpectedly at age 56, while the cameraman of the film, the famous Fritz Arno Wagner, also died young during a shoot. The director died at age 42 in an accident in Santa Barbara (California) when riding in a car driven by his Filipino valet of 14 years.
He came to Hollywood in 1926, where she shot four films (among they Dawn and Taboo, both Oscar winners). His aesthetic pursuits and formal innovations of German cinema who played as few end up influencing a generation of directors and emigrados- -norteamericanos mecca of cinema. .
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