A 17th century Hungarian countess embarks on a murderous undertaking, with the belief that bathing in the blood of virgins will preserve her beauty.
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Title: The Countess (2009)
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1 win & 1 nomination.
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Julie Delpy | ... | Erzebet Bathory | |
| Daniel Brühl | ... | Istvan Thurzo | |
| William Hurt | ... | Gyorgy Thurzo | |
| Anamaria Marinca | ... | Darvulia | |
| Sebastian Blomberg | ... | Dominic Vizakna | |
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Adriana Altaras | ... | Aunt Klara |
| Charly Hübner | ... | Ferenc Nadasdy | |
| Andy Gatjen | ... | Miklos | |
| Maria Simon | ... | Helena | |
| Frederick Lau | ... | Janos | |
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Katrin Pollitt | ... | Dorothea |
| Anna Maria Mühe | ... | Bertha | |
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Marlis Eulitz | ... | Zusanna |
| Rolf Kanies | ... | Count Krajevo | |
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Christine Mayer | ... | Kaija |
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A 17th century Hungarian countess embarks on a murderous undertaking, with the belief that bathing in the blood of virgins will preserve her beauty.
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fear of aging | female serial killer | blood | impossible love | hungary |Taglines:
She sacrificed all for love... and sacrificed others for beautyParents Guide:
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Capriccio Stravagante & Skip Sempe
Written by Biagio Marini
© & ® 1991 Harmonica Mundi
Courtesy of Sony BMG Music Entertainment (Germany) GmbH
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(at around 1h 15mins) The fifth book on the bookshelf is the "Dictionnaire De Boyer". Abel Boyer was born in 1664 and did write a French-English dictionary. Countess Báthory died in 1614. See more »Quotes
Erzebet Bathory: God, perhaps you are trying my faith. Perhaps you are punishing me because I loved him more than I love you. Man has created God in his image which gives him dominance over everything else. Birds, lions, trees and women. I wish I had been born a man, I would have killed thousands in battle, taken over countries, burned witches - I would have been a hero. That is it, you're nothing but a myth. The Greeks created gods for everything because they could not figure out why the sea, why love, why ...See more »
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Written by Biagio Marini
© & ® 1991 Harmonica Mundi
Courtesy of Sony BMG Music Entertainment (Germany) GmbH
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This movie rocks because it manages to be both a lavish, complex period movie and a psychological horror movie at the same time. Julie Delpy does a fantastic job in the role of a complex woman from a brutal period in European history, and her performance somehow gracefully manages to be both sympathetic and monstrous. Bathory is one of history's most prolific and sadistic mass murderers, but historians are ultimately unsure of who she really was, and to what extent she was responsible for the atrocities for which she is credited. Most agree that the whole "beauty treatment bloodbath" thing is a myth made up by later generations to spice up the story, so I was surprised that a telling supposedly rooted in fact ended up going that route, but I loved the idea of a Bathory who is a real person and not just a 2-dimensional fiend. Great sets, costumes, and performances from a well-written script make The Countess an engaging and informative portrait of a woman whose vanity and blood lust have become the stuff of legend.