Vampyr

feature film, fantazija, horror, Germany, France, 1932

DIRECTED BY: Carl Theodor Dreyer

Vampyr

CAST:
Julian West (Allan Grey),
Maurice Schutz (vlasnik dvorca),
Rena Mandel (Gisèle),
Sybille Schmitz (Léone),
Jan Hieronimko (seoski liječnik)

SCRIPT:
Christen Jul,
Carl Theodor Dreyer (based on stories by Sheridan Le Fanu)

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Rudolph Maté,
Louis Née (nepotpisan)

EDITING:
Tonka Taldy

Synopsis:
Allan Grey is a young researcher of the occult mysteries. One evening a stranger leaves a package for him with the message: “Open after my death”. Allan follows the stranger, catching up to him in front of a castle right before the man gets murdered. Then he finds out that the stranger’s daughters live in the castle, the younger Gisèle and her older sibling Léone who is severely ill. The servants allow Allan to spend the night in the castle and when he opens the mysterious package, he finds a book about vampires.

b/w, 75'

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