The Countess
She sacrificed all for love and others for beauty
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 39 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: October 25, 2011
- Originally Released: 2009
- Label: IFC Independent Film
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Julie Delpy, Daniel Brühl & William Hurt | |
Performer: | Sebastian Blomberg & Anamaria Marinca | |
Directed by | Julie Delpy | |
Screenwriting by | Julie Delpy | |
Composition by | Julie Delpy | |
Produced by | Andro Steinborn | |
Director of Photography: | Martin Ruhe |
Entertainment Reviews:
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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 2,061
Wacky tale of a woman who killed virgins for their blood to keep her skin wrinkle-free might get some traction in Central Europe, where it is set, but won't make it past the Europudding label elsewhere.
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Rating: C+ --
A bizarre tale of a vampiric countess performed with stilted, faux-Shakespearean dialogue
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Product Description:
Julie Delpy directs and stars in this biography of Erzebet Bathory, the 17th century countess whose love of a younger man drove her to madness and beyond. At the dawn of the 17th century, Countess Bathory was the most powerful woman in Hungary. At the age of 14, she married a powerful warlord twice her age and bore him four children. While her husband was away fighting wars, Countess Bathory maintained their estate with the help of her one true confidant, a powerful witch named Anna Darvulia. Over time, Countess Bathory's gained great influence, even holding sway over decisions made by the King. But she was unwilling to accept a world in which men were able to break the rules without consequence while women were expected to be unquestionably subservient, and after her husband died, Countess Bathory fell deeply in love with a young nobleman named Istvan (Daniel Brühl), whom she encountered at a lavish feast. Istvan too was smitten, though his relationship with the countess was cut short when his father, Count Thurzo (William Hurt), forced him to break off the romance. Meanwhile, as Countess Bathory becomes obsessed with the prospect that age was a factor in the failure of the relationship, Count Thurzo begins crafting an elaborate plot against her. Eventually Countess Bathory's blinding sadness gives way to irreversible madness, and she becomes convinced that she can maintain her youth and beauty forever by bathing in the blood of virgins. Her dementia and obsession flowing like the virginal blood she bathes in every night, Countess Bathory eventually realizes that she has become the victim of a vast political conspiracy hatched by the father of her beloved. But by now it's already too late, Countess Erzebet Bathory's downfall had already been set into motion.
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- Sales Rank: 36,329
- UPC: 030306979199
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