Isabelle Huppert is ready to star as Countess Elizabeth Báthory within the vampire film The Blood Countess, directed by Ulrike Ottinger
24 years in the past, Isabelle Huppert starred in an erotic psychological drama known as The Piano Trainer, which received the Grand Prix award on the Cannes Movie Competition, the place Huppert additionally earned a Finest Actress award (and her co-star Benoît Magimel received Finest Actor). The Piano Trainer was based mostly on a novel by Elfriede Jelinek – and now, Huppert and Jelinek are set to reteam for a vampire film known as The Blood Countess, the place Huppert shall be taking up the position of the title character, Countess Elizabeth Báthory, a Sixteenth-century Hungarian serial killer!
Selection studies that German New Wave artist and filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger shall be directing The Blood Countess and wrote the screenplay with Jelinek. Huppert shall be enjoying Báthory as she awakens from her lengthy magnificence sleep and emerges from the underworld. She and her devoted maid (Birgit Minichmayr) embark on a baroque quest by way of Vienna to get better the crimson elixir of life. The guide, if discovered and skim by the vampire’s enemies, threatens their vampire realm. Sizzling on their heels are a vegetarian nephew (Thomas Schubert), his psychotherapist (Lars Eidinger), two vampirologists, a police inspector, and extra full of life characters on this twisted and humorous vampire story.
Huppert is joined within the forged by Birgit Minichmayr (Daughters), Lars Eidinger (Dying), Thomas Schubert (Afire), and André Jung (The Forger).
The Enlarge gross sales crew shall be presenting the undertaking to potential consumers on the European Movie Market. Enlarge offered the next assertion: “The Blood Countess is an immersive and delightfully eccentric vampire thriller with a vibrant forged of characters, led by the charming Blood Countess herself. The story unfolds as a extremely visible, narrative scavenger hunt — enjoying with historical past, modernity, humor, and elegance. It’s the good reintroduction of Ottinger’s work to a worldwide viewers that has grown in urge for food for visually putting, daring and sensible style cinema.“
Ottinger added, “This is the right time for the Blood Countess to wake up from her deep sleep and savor the present. The world is upside down and events are repeating themselves in an eerie way. Vienna, with its historic buildings and timeless flair, is the perfect crime scene. With her sophistication, beauty, and calculation, the Blood Countess casts a spell over all those who serve her, flee from her, or pursue her.” Ottinger’s filmmaking profession stretches again to the Nineteen Seventies. Her credit embrace The Enchantment of the Blue Troopers, Madame X: An Absolute Ruler, Ticket of No Return, Freak Orlando, Joan of Arc of Mongolia, and extra.
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