Wegener, P.

Japanese: ウェゲナー,P. - うぇげなー
Wegener, P.

...Next came Nosferatu (1922), directed by FW Murnau, the first full-scale film adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula. In 1914, the first year of the war, the first film adaptation of the Jewish legend The Golem was made by director Stellan Rey and Paul Wegener, with a screenplay by Henrik Gallen, who also wrote the screenplay for Nosferatu. It is certain that German films of the silent era were the source of horror and fantasy films. Meanwhile, Hollywood, which had already been quick to import European film scenes and filmmakers at the time, invited Paul Reni (The Mysterious Old Cave, 1924) from Germany to make films such as The Cat and the Canary (1927), and Benjamin Christensen (The Mysterious X, 1914, Sorcery, 1921) from Denmark to make films such as The Devil's Circus (1926). ...

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Wegener, P." is listed below.

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Japanese:

…次いでブラム・ストーカー原作《吸血鬼ドラキュラ》の初の本格的な映画化であるF.W.ムルナウ監督の《ノスフェラトゥ》(1922)が現れる。すでに,大戦1年目の14年に,《ノスフェラトゥ》の脚本を書いたヘンリク・ガーレンの脚本,シュテラン・ライとパウル・ウェゲナー監督で,ユダヤ伝説による《ゴーレム》の初の映画化が行われるなど,サイレント期のドイツ映画が,怪奇と幻想映画の源流であったのは確かである。 一方,当時から,ヨーロッパの映画状況と作家をすばやく移入していたハリウッドは,ドイツからパウル・レニ(《裏町の怪老窟》1924)を呼んで《猫とカナリア》(1927)などをつくらせ,デンマークからベンヤミン・クリステンセン(《謎のX》1914,《妖術》1921)を招いて,《悪魔の曲馬団》(1926)などを撮らせた。…

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