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Vem var Dracula? (1975) -- A documentary exploring the legends of vampires, using books, paintings and early films on the subject.

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Director:
Calvin Floyd
Writers:
Radu Florescu (book)
Yvonne Floyd (writer)
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Release Date:
15 May 1975 (USA) more
Tagline:
The blood-curdling truth behind the legendary vampire.
Plot:
A documentary exploring the legends of vampires, using books, paintings and early films on the subject. | add synopsis
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IN SEARCH OF Dracula (Calvin Floyd, 1975) ** more

Cast

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Tor Isedal ... Narrator

Christopher Lee ... Himself / Vlad Tepes / Count Dracula
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Dracula's Transylvania
In Search of Dracula (USA) (literal English title)
The Legend of Dracula
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Runtime:
81 min
Country:
Sweden | France | USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Sweden:15 | USA:PG

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Featured in The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula' (2007) (V) more

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IN SEARCH OF Dracula (Calvin Floyd, 1975) **, 26 October 2008
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Author: MARIO GAUCI (marrod@melita.com) from Naxxar, Malta

I'd long been interested in this documentary on the history behind the archetypal vampire figure due to Christopher Lee's involvement (as both narrator and actor) but also given the fact that director Floyd would follow it with the well-regarded THE TERROR OF FRANKENSTEIN (1975), a faithful adaptation of Mary Shelley's horror classic.

However, the result in this case is mainly dull and patchy at best: not only were several of the accounts involving "Dracula" novelist Bram Stoker and the inspirations for his creation (chiefly the notorious Vlad the Impaler) already familiar to me – but such other interjections as J. Sheridan LeFanu's equally famous female vampire story "Carmilla", the way the inherently predatory nature of femme fatales drew upon that of the vampire (hence the epithet 'vamp'), or the documentation of a real-life modern-day blood-sucker (who may well have inspired George A. Romero's MARTIN [1978]) felt like padding more than anything else!

The film's real coup, then, lies in the makers' decision to shoot in authentic locations – which, amazingly, have retained their Old World and genuinely eerie quality. Even so, Lee (who appears as Vlad himself and, of course, Dracula in both an ageing guise – the way he was actually depicted in the original – and, bafflingly, excerpts from the Hammer film SCARS OF Dracula [1971]) looks positively bored throughout, in spite of his typically authoritative voice! Besides, the segment on Dracula's cinematic incarnation – with obvious references to NOSFERATU (1922), Bela Lugosi and, naturally, Lee's own stint in the part – comes across as disappointingly schematic…

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