Why Was Nosferatu Banned

Trivia (26) The movie was banned in Sweden due to excessive horror. The ban was finally lifted in 1972. After 85 years, virtually all of the exteriors are left intact in the cities of Wismar and Lübeck.

What happened to the director of Nosferatu?

In what sounds like a scene from one of his legendary horror films, the head of Nosferatu director FW Murnau, who died in 1931, has been stolen from his family plot in a cemetery in Germany. … Murnau died in a car crash aged 42 in California and was buried in his native Germany.

Where did Nosferatu take place?

Galeen set the story in the fictional north German harbour town of Wisborg.