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Films
- Early adaptations
One of the first film adaptations of Stoker's story
caused Stoker's estate to sue for copyright
infringement.
In 1922, silent film director F. W. Murnau
made a horror film called Nosferatu: eine Symphonie des
Grauens ("Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror"), which took
the story of Dracula and set it in Transylvania and
Germany.
In the story, Dracula's role was changed to
that of Count Orlok, played by Max Schreck (whose name
literally means 'fright'). (Previously, Murnau had
similarly made an unauthorized version of Robert Louis
Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
called Der Januskopf, starring Conrad Veidt in the dual
role.)
Dracula in popular culture - Edward Van
Sloan
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