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Vampyr: The Criterion Collection [2-disc Special Edition]

DVD - APPROX. 75 MINS. - 1932 - US Rating: NR

Main feature:

Release Jul 22, 2008
Video Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audio German: Dolby Digital 1.0
Subtitles English
Studio Criterion
Year 1932
Genre Horror, Fantasy

Special features:

  • Remastered Audio and Video
  • New, restored high-definition digital transfer of the 1998 film restoration by Martin Koerber and the Cineteca di Bologna
  • Optional all-new English-text version of the film
  • Audio Commentary featuring film scholar Tony Rayns
  • 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
  • A 1958 radio broadcast of Dreyer reading an essay about filmmaking
  • New and improved English subtitle translation
  • PLUS: A booklet featuring new essays by Mark Le Fanu and Kim Newman, Martin Koerber on the restoration, and an archival interview with producer and star Nicolas de Gunzburg, as well as a book featuring Dreyer and Christen Jul's original screenplay and Sheridan Le Fanu 1871 story Carmilla, a source for the film

Synopsis:


Freely adapted from classic Victorian supernatural tales by author Sheridan Le Fanu, VAMPYR tells the story of a young man who becomes involved with two sisters, one of whom, wasting away with a strange sickness, turns out to be the victim of a vampire.

With Vampyr, Danish filmmaker Carl Theodor Dreyer's brilliance at achieving mesmerizing atmosphere and austere, profoundly unsettling imagery (The Passion of Joan of Arc and Day of Wrath) was for once applied to the horror genre. Yet the result—concerning an occult student assailed by various supernatural haunts and local evildoers in a village outside Paris—is nearly unclassifiable, a host of stunning camera and editing tricks and densely layered sounds creating a mood of dreamlike terror. With its roiling fogs, ominous scythes, and foreboding echoes, Vampyr is one of cinema's great nightmares.

VAMPYR (Der Traum des Allan Grey from Germany) is a classic horror fantasy.

Cast and Crew:

Criterion presents
Henriette GerardJan HieronimkoRena MandelSybille SchmitzMaurice SchutzJulian West"Vampyr: The Criterion Collection"
Written byChristen Julproduced byBaron Nicolas De Gunzberg
produced byCarl Theodor Dreyer
directed byCarl Theodor Dreyer
Production Year: 1932

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