Themes
The subgenre of the fictional movie that is defined by horror, death, and romance.
What is Gothic?
Who is the Jolly but also slightly Naïve male Character in Nosferatu?
Who is Thomas Hutter.
This film technique is used in Nosferatu to demonstrate danger, as well as nighttime versus daytime.
What is lighting?
The symbol used to mark the house of a plague victim.
What is a cross?
The theme that motivated Hutter to go to Transylvania and attempt to make a deal with Count Orlak.
Greed.
Who tricks Thomas into going to Transylvania for a real estate deal?
Who is Knock.
This was the reason Nosferatu was banned.
What is copyright infringement?
The fear of Count Orlok and his infected rats moving from Transylvania to Wisborg represents this theme.
What is xenophobia?
Who is the Sensible, Semi heroic leading lady in Nosferatu?
Who is Ellen.
When and where Nosferatu was filmed, which greatly affected the theme of antisemitism.
What is 1922, in the Weimar Republic/Germany?
This theme is portrayed when Orlok corners Ellen on her bed in her nightgown.
What is sexuality?
Hutter meets who when going to Transylvania?
Who is Count Orlok
The characterization and outward appearance of Knock and Count Orlok represent this theme.
What is antisemitism?
Who is Count Orlok?
who is Nosferatu.