In Collection
#1699
Seen It:
No
USA / English
| Julian West |
Allan Grey |
| Maurice Schutz |
Lord of the Manor |
| Rena Mandel |
Gisele |
| Sybille Schmitz |
Leone |
| Jan Hieronimko |
Village Doctor |
| Henriette Gérard |
Marguerite Chopin |
| Albert Bras |
Old Servant |
| N. Babanini |
His Wife |
| Jane Mora |
Nurse |
| Baron Nicolas de Gunzberg |
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| Henriette Gerard |
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| Director |
Carl Theodor Dreyer; Wladyslaw Starewicz |
| Producer |
Carl Theodor Dreyer; Julian West |
| Writer |
Sheridan Le Fanu; Carl Theodor Dreyer; Christen Jul |
This silent film features Allan Gray (Julian West), who has studied vampires and devils. He doesn’t always know where reality ends and the unreal begins. He journeys to an inn and becomes terrified by a man with a deformed appearance. Allan receives a package which is not to be opened until after a certain person dies. Allan goes to a park and finds a man with two sick girls, Giselle (Rena Handel) and Leone (Sybille Schmitz). The father is killed by a shadowy figure. Allan stays to wait for the police, opens the package and reads about vampires. The doctor comes and says Giselle requires blood from Allan. Allan and a servant stop Giselle from being poisoned. Allan’s shadow goes away from him, and the shadow finds his own body inside a coffin at the doctor’s house, as well as Leone’s body. Allan doesn’t know if this is all just a dream, and must wait until the next day to know for sure.
| Distributor |
Criterion |
| Edition |
The Criterion Collection |
| Barcode |
715515030427 |
| Region |
Region 1 |
| Release Date |
22/07/2008 |
| Packaging |
Custom Case |
| Screen Ratio |
1.33:1 |
| Subtitles |
English |
| Audio Tracks |
Dolby Digital Mono [German] |
| Layers |
Single Side, Dual Layer |
| No. of Disks/Tapes |
2 |
| Disc 1: |
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Disc One: The Film - The original German version in a new high-definition digital transfer from the 1998 restoration by Martin Koerber and the Cineteca di Bologna - Newly created alternate version with English text - Audio commentary featuring film scholar Tony Rayns - New and improved English subtitle translation Disc Two: The Supplements - Carl Th. Dreyer (1966), a documentary by Jorgen 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 - PLUS: A booklet featuring new essays by critics Mark Le Fanu and Kim Newman, Koerber on the restoration, and a 1964 interview with producer and star Nicholas de Gunzburg, as well as a book featuring Dreyer and Christen Jul's original screenplay and Sheridan Le Fanu's 1872 story "Carmilla", a source for the film |
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