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In this scene from “Nosferatu,” a city man finds himself very out of place as he arrives in a Transylvanian village.
Nicholas Hoult plays Thomas Hutter, a real estate agent on the way to meet with Count Orlok. On this stop, he is met with both wonder and laughter from the villagers, and the scene is captured in one take.
Narrating the scene, the film’s writer and director, Robert Eggers, said that his team built this village set in the Czech Republic, outside Prague.
”We went to a lot of vernacular architecture museums in Romania and Transylvania to study what we would be building and this is based on all that.”
The sequence is made up of Roma nonprofessional actors, as well as musicians, dancers and even an appearance by a Czech pop star, Jordan Haj.
Eggers said that it was all “very carefully choreographed and rehearsed ahead of time in a warehouse in Prague,” and then on set they did roughly 30 takes to capture the moment.
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