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Vampyr

Call Number

  • DVD FOREIGN (CEN)

Edition

Special ed. ; full screen version.

Languages

German dialogue; English subtitles.

Performers

Julian West, Maurice Schutz, Rena Mandel, Sybille Schmitz.

Publication Information

[Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, 2008.

Physical Description

2 videodiscs (73 min) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (42 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.) + 1 screenplay (214 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)

Audience

Rating: Not rated.

Summary

A subtle, disturbing version of the vampire legend. A young man attempts to find and kill a vampire that has assumed the form of an old woman.

Notes

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1932.

Based on a story from In a glass darkly, by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu.

Includes Vampyr : the screenplay, a translated and restored version of the final draft of the original French screenplay, as published by Maurice Drouzy and Charles Tesson in Carl Th. Dreyer: Ouvres cinématographiques 1926-1934.

Special features (disc two: the supplements) : Carl Th. Dreyer (1966), a documentary by Jørgen Roos chronicling Dreyer's career ; Visual essay by scholar Casper Tybjerg on Dreyer's influences in creating Vampyr ; radio broadcast from 1958 of Dreyer reading an essay about filmmaking.

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