German Cinema and Murnau
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<Tab/>Murnau made his first appearance as a movie director with The Blue Boy, a film after Oscar Wilde's story about a Gainsborough-painting. The expressionist film Nosferatu was his artistic breakthrough in Germany, while The Last Laugh attracted the attention of Hollywood producers like William Fox. Faust was one of Murnau's last films, shot in Germany. He eventually went to America together with his screen writer Carl Mayer and directed Sunrise, another big success. Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau (1888-1931), better known as F. W.…
