Vampyr
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| Vampyr | |
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 Original movie poster | |
| Directed by | Carl Theodor Dreyer |
| Produced by | Carl Theodor Dreyer Julian West |
| Written by | Sheridan Le Fanu (novel) Christen Jul Carl Theodor Dreyer |
| Starring | Julian West Maurice Schutz Rena Mandel |
| Music by | Wolfgang Zeller |
| Cinematography | Rudolph Maté Louis Née |
| Editing by | Paul Falkenberg |
| Release date(s) | 1932 |
| Running time | 75 min. |
| Language | German |
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| IMDb profile | |
Vampyr is a 1932 Danish film by Carl Theodor Dreyer, loosely based on the vampire novella Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. An art film and early example of a sound film, it is short on dialogue and plot, but is admired even today for its innovative use of light and shadow.
The film was made in black and white, and stars Julian West AKA Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg (the film's producer), Maurice Schutz, Rena Mandel, Sybille Schmitz, Jan Hieronimko, and Henriette Gérard.
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[edit] Cast
- Julian West as Allan Grey
- Maurice Schutz as the Lord of the Manor
- Rena Mandel as Gisele
- Sybille Schmitz as Leone
- Jan Hieronimko as the Village Doctor
- Henriette Gérard as Marguerite Chopin, the Woman from the Cemetery
- Albert Bras as an Old Servant
- N. Babanini as His Wife
- Jane Mora as a Nurse
[edit] Plot
Young traveller Allan Grey arrives in a remote castle and starts seeing weird, inexplicable sights (a man whose shadow has a life of its own, a mysterious scythe-bearing figure tolling a bell, a terrifying dream of his own burial). Things come to a head when one of the daughters of the lord of the castle succumbs to anaemia - or is it something more sinister?
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Full movie at Google video
- Vampyr at the Internet Movie Database
| Carl Theodor Dreyer |
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| Silent Films |
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The President (1919) • The Witch Woman (1920) Leaves from Satan's Book (1921) • Love one Another (1922) Once Upon a Time (1922) • Michael (1924) Thou Shalt Honor Thy Wife (1925) • Bride of Glomdal (1926) The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) |
| Sound Films |
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Vampyr (1932) • Good Mothers (1942) • Day of Wrath (1943) • Two People (1945) • Water from the Land (1946) • The Struggle Against Cancer (1947) • The Danish Village Church (1947) • They Caught the Ferry (1948) • The Storstrom Bridge (1950) • The Castle Within the Castle (1955) • Ordet (1955) • Gertrud (1964) |
