Count Orlok is a fictional character who first appeared in the silent film Nosferatu directed by F. W. Murnau. Based on Bram Stoker's Count Dracula, he is played by German actor Max Schreck, and is depicted as a repulsive vampire descended from Belial, who leaves his homeland of Transylvania to spread the plague in the idyllic city of Wisborg in Biedermeier period Germany, only to find death at the hands of a self-sacrificing woman.
