It is left to the film's other main actor, Gustav von Wangenheim, to explain that the lead is an obscure German theater performer named Max Schreck, who is a character actor. Murnau keeps his team in the dark about their schedule and the actor playing the vampire Count Orlok. Murnau is shooting Nosferatu, an unauthorized version of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula. For his performance, Dafoe was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Makeup, losing to How the Grinch Stole Christmas. The film borrows the techniques of silent films, including the use of intertitles to explain elided action, and iris lenses. Murnau, during which the film crew begin to have disturbing suspicions about their lead actor. It is a fictionalized account of the making of the classic vampire film Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens, directed by F. Elias Merhige, written by Steven Katz, and starring John Malkovich and Willem Dafoe. Shadow of the Vampire is a 2000 independent period horror mystery black comedy film directed by E.
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