Why Did a Court Order Every Copy of Nosferatu Destroyed?

This video tells the whole story of F. W. Murnau's 1922 silent horror film Nosferatu in order, from Thomas Hutter's journey to Count Orlok's castle to the plague ship that reaches Wisborg and Ellen's sacrifice at dawn. It treats the film's history as a case file. Why did the filmmakers rename Dracula as Count Orlok when the original German intertitles admitted where the story came from? How did Bram Stoker's widow win a ruling that every print be destroyed? And how did prints survive, so that the film became one of the founding works of horror and entered the public domain worldwide in 2019? We go through what is documented, separate it from the legends, and give the best current answer. Chapters: 0:00 The Film That Was Sentenced to Burn 2:12 Exhibit A: A Guest at Orlok's Castle 4:31 Exhibit B: The Ship, the Rats, the Name 7:21 Exhibit C: Dawn, and the Studio That Made It 10:03 The Verdict on a Film That Refused to Die Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosferatu https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/fi... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Stoker https://www.mentalfloss.com/entertainment/... https://www.britannica.com/topic/Nosferatu... https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/vampires/?p=10 https://rosenbach.org/blog/the-destruction... Image credits: Film footage: public domain, via Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/Nosferatu_most....