Nosferatu the Vampyre (originally Nosferatu: Phantom of the Night) is a 1979 West German art house vampire film written and directed by Werner Herzog. The film is set primarily in 19th-century Wismar, Germany and Transylvania, and was conceived as a stylistic remake of Nosferatu (1922) It stars Klaus Kinski as Count Dracula, Isabelle Adjani as Lucy Harker, Bruno Ganz as Jonathan Harker, and French artist-writer Roland Topor as Renfield. There are two different versions of the film, one in which the actors speak English, and one in which they speak German.