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The Blood Countess
Ulrike OTTINGER
- Austria, Luxembourg, Germany
- 2026
- 119min
- 15 +
- DCP
- color
Synopsis
After "The Blood Countess" awakens from her long beauty sleep and emerges from the underworld, she and her devoted maid embark on a baroque quest through Vienna to recover the red elixir of life. The book, if found and read by the vampire’s enemies, threatens their vampire realm... Hot on their heels are a vegetarian nephew, his psychotherapist, two vampirologists, a police inspector, and more lively characters in this twisted and humorous vampire tale.
Director's Statement
The Blood Countess is a satire which adopts the conventions of black comedy. With an acute awareness of political and human structures, and with a twinkle in its eye, the film traces the iconography of the world of vampires. The Blood Countess depicts a contemporary theme with grotesque compression, at the same time reading it against the grain in witty fashion. The surprise and laughter that the film evokes in the audience represent the first step towards liberation from the paralysis of an imagined apocalypse.
schedule
| Code | Time | Theater | Grade | |
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| The Blood Countess | 2026-08-22 | 19:40 - 21:39 | MEGABOX Sinchon 5 |   |
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| The Blood Countess | 2026-08-24 | 13:10 - 15:09 | MEGABOX Sinchon 6 | |
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Director
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Ulrike OTTINGERUlrike Ottinger is a visionary German filmmaker and artist whose bold, genre-defying work has left a lasting mark on international cinema. After beginning her career in Paris as a painter and photographer, she turned to film in the early 1970s, bringing a striking visual sensibility to both narrative and documentary formats. Based in Berlin, Ottinger went on to direct the celebrated Berlin Trilogy and a series of meticulously researched, globally acclaimed documentaries.
Credit
- ProducerAlexander DUMREICHER-IVANCEANU, Bady MINCK, Bettina BROKEMPER, Ulrike OTTINGER
- Cast Isabelle HUPPERT, Birgit MINICHMAYR, Thomas SCHUBERT, Lars EIDINGER, André JUNG, Marco LORENZINI, Tom NEUWIRTH
- Screenwriter Ulrike OTTINGER, Elfriede JELINEK
- Editor Pia DUMONT
- Sound Karim WETH