24 years in the past, Isabelle Huppert starred in an erotic psychological drama referred to as The Piano Trainer, which received the Grand Prix award on the Cannes Movie Pageant, the place Huppert additionally earned a Greatest Actress award (and her co-star Benoît Magimel received Greatest Actor). The Piano Trainer was based mostly on a novel by Elfriede Jelinek – and now, Huppert and Jelinek have reteamed for a vampire film referred to as The Blood Countess, the place Huppert takes on the position of the title character, Countess Elizabeth Báthory, a Sixteenth-century Hungarian serial killer! MAGNIFY gross sales lately acquired U.S. and world (excluding Austria, Ex-Yugoslavia, Germany, and Luxembourg) gross sales rights to the movie, and at the moment they’ve unveiled the primary picture of Huppert’s character. You may test it out on the backside of this text.
German New Wave artist and filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger directed The Blood Countess and wrote the screenplay with Jelinek. Huppert performs 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 via Vienna to get better the purple elixir of life. The e book, if discovered and skim by the vampire’s enemies, threatens their vampire realm. Scorching 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 solid by Birgit Minichmayr (Daughters), Lars Eidinger (Dying), Thomas Schubert (Afire), André Jung (The Forger), and Tom Neuwirth, a.ok.a. Conchita Wurst (Eurovision Tune Contest 2014 winner).
Amplify supplied the next assertion: “The Blood Countess is an immersive and delightfully eccentric vampire mystery with a vibrant cast of characters, led by the captivating Blood Countess herself. The story unfolds as a highly visual, narrative scavenger hunt — playing with history, modernity, humor, and style. It is the perfect reintroduction of Ottinger’s work to a global audience that has grown in appetite for visually striking, bold and smart genre 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 embody The Enchantment of the Blue Troopers, Madame X: An Absolute Ruler, Ticket of No Return, Freak Orlando, Joan of Arc of Mongolia, and extra.
Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu of Amour Fou Vienna, Bady Minck of Amour Fou Luxembourg, and Bettina Brokemper of Heimatfilm produced the movie, in coproduction with Ulrike Ottinger Filmproduktion.
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