Famed Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein preferred nonprofessional actors for ideological reasons: the Communist masses, not individuals, were the main subjects of his films; Eisenstein also believed that nonprofessional actors could best represent the types of working-class men and their oppressors, such as capitalist, Russian Orthodox priest, and tsarist military forces.

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If the self-consciousness of Nosferatu is based on the generation to which Murnau belongs -the men and woman who lived through the transit from the nineteenth to the twentieth century, from the achievements of Romanticism to the displacements of Expressionism-

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