One of the most legendary silent films of all time, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau's horror film "Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror", will be screened again at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, with a new score composed by Tõnis Kaumann and performed by the Pärnu City Orchestra.

"Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror" is based on Bram Stroker's novel Dracula, which has been adapted several times. Directed by Murnau and filmed by Fritz Arno Wagner, the movie premiered on 5 March 1922. The main action takes place in the Carpathian Mountains, in the country estate of Count Orlok (played by Max Schreck).

In creating what has become a horror film classic, Murnau and Wagner took advantage of all the technical possibilities available at the time. They experimented with both with using negative footage and multiplication.

One hundred years after the film's premiere, the horror film is back on screen, this time as a collaborative project between the Pärnu City Orchestra and the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival.

The Symphony of Horrors is open to all at:

18 November at 19:00 in Kumu, here.
19 November at 19:00 in the Pärnu Concert Hall, here.

Tristan Priimägi (Estonian film journalist and critic from the newspaper "Sirp") will introduce the film before both concerts.

Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror
Pärnu City Orchestra, Conductor Kaspar Mänd