Vampyr DVD

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Certificate:	PG

Special Features:

Full-length audio commentary featuring Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro, New, high-definition transfer of the Martin Koerber / Cineteca di Bologna film r, Two deleted scenes, removed by the German censor in 1932., Carl Th. Dreyer (1966) a documentary by Jrgen Roos., Visual essay by scholar Casper Tybjerg on Dreyer's Vampyr influences., The Baron - a short MoC documentary about Baron Nicolas de Gunzberg, Inspiration for the film - Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla - as an on-disc PDF., 80-page book featuring rare production stills, a facsimile reproduction of the 1

Region:	Region 2

Number of Discs:	1

Main Language:	English

Description

The first sound-film by one of the greatest of all filmmaker's, Vampyr offers a sensual immediacy that few, if any, works of cinema can claim to match. Legendary director Carl Theodor Dreyer leads the viewer, as though guided in a trance, through a realm akin to a wakingdream, a zone positioned somewhere between reality and the supernatural.

Traveller Allan Gray (arrestingly depicted by Julian West, aka the secretive real-life Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg) arrives at a countryside inn seemingly beckoned by haunted forces. His growing acquaintance with the family who reside there soon opens up a network of uncanny associations between the dead and the living, of ghostly lore and demonology, which pull Gray ever deeper into an unsettling, and upsetting, mystery. At its core: troubled Gisle, chaste daughter and sexual incarnation, portrayed by the great, cursed Sybille Schmitz (Diary of a Lost Girl, and inspiration for Fassbinder's Veronika Voss.) Before the candles of Vampyr exhaust themselves, Allan Gray and the viewer alike come eye-to-eye with Fate in the face of dear dying Sybille, in the blasphemed bodies of horrific bat-men, in
the charged and mortal act of asphyxiation eye-to-eye, then, with Death, the supreme vampire.