Saeki
A couple of years ago I wrote an album called “Les Fleurs du Mal”. despite its title, that album is NOT dedicated to Baudelaire's famous collection of poems — rather, it proposes pieces inspired by the manga 惡の華 (“Aku no Hana”, that is “The Flowers of Evil”), by Oshimi Shūzō.
So far I have posted three pieces from that album. This is a fourth one, called “Saeki”, as one of the dramatis personae of that manga. The video is given by the first scene of “Nosferatu – Eine Symphonie des Grauens”,
“a 1922 silent German Expressionist horror film directed by F. W. Murnau and starring Max Schreck as Count Orlok, a vampire who preys on the wife ([Ellen, interpreted by] Greta Schröder) of his estate agent (Gustav von Wangenheim) and brings the plague to their town” (Wikipedia)
The tragic figure of Ellen, and her utmost sensibility, led me to the present association with Nanako Saeki. If you read the manga, my guess is you're going to understand why.
Please note that Greta Schröder was actually born as Margarethe Schröder.
If you like this music, you might consider to listen to the whole album on #bandcamp:
Les Fleurs Du Mal: https://eidon.bandcamp.com/album/les-fleurs-du-mal
The video is on my #youtube channel, https://www.youtube.com/@eidonveda, at https://youtu.be/GUYRfzjA91k:
Murnau's film was downloaded from https://archive.org/details/nosferatu_eine_symphonie_des_grauens, Public Domain Mark 1.0 Creative Commons License publicd omain
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Die Schauspielerin Greta Schroeder, 1919. Ernst Reichardt (gest. 1932) – Privatfotographie Ernst Reichardt. Public domain.
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