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Shadow of the Vampire is a 2000 American black comedy film directed by E. Elias Merhige and starring Willem Dafoe as Max Schreck, an actor who portrayed Count Orlok in the 1922 film Nosferatu. The film explores the legend that Schreck was actually a vampire and that the film's director, F. W. Murnau, knew this and exploited him for the film's sake.