The Blood Countessby Ulrike Ottinger
Fiction
A / D / F, 90 min.
Script: Ulrike Ottinger
Director of Photography: Christian Berger
Editing: Bettina Böhler
Producers: Kurt Mayer, Heino Deckert
with Tilda Swinton, Isabelle Huppert, Johannes Silberschneider, Sophie Rois, Nicholas Ofczarek, Johann Adam Oest, Christoph von Friedl, Branko Samarovski, Julian Looman et al.
A production of kurt mayer film
in co-production with ma.ja.de. filmproduktion (D); Divine Productions (F)
Completion: February 2011
Subsidy
SynopsisImpatiently awaiting the arrival of her devoted maid Hermine, the countess Erzsébeth Báthory, also known as La Comtesse Sanglante, a tigress in human disguise, ascends onto the open daylight...
At breathtaking speed, the two women race through a Vienna of ghoulish beauty. Their entourage: Báthory nephew Bubi, a vegeterian vampire who refuses to follow family traditions, his therapist, two wacky vampirologists, some members of the duelling fraternity " Vampiria", an all-female music ensemble, and many more.
"Wiener Blut", Viennese blood is shed by the buckets while the hearts of the present Habsburgians and Viennese beat-high. This is a cracked journey to the roots of a myth that has lost nothing of its appeal: to the Vampyre Empire!
Naturall, the showdown takes place at Vienna's "Prater" - during a midnight supper on that fair's famous Ferris wheel.
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