Vampyr / - Blu-ray special edition. , Germany - 1 videodisc (73 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (38 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm) and 1 book (214 pages ; 17 cm). - 4 3/4 in. - The Criterion collection ; 437 . - Criterion collection 437. .

Originally released as a motion picture in 1932. Based on the short story "Carmilla" from In a glass darkly by J. Sheridan Le Fanu. Uncompressed mono, full screen 1.19:1. Booklet featuring new essays by Mark Le Fanu and Kim Newman, Martin Koerber on the restoration, and a 1964 interview with producer and star Nicolas de Gunzburg and a book, Writing Vampyr, featuring Dreyer and Christen Jul's original screenplay and Sheridan Le Fanu 1872 story "Carmilla," a source for the film, included in container. Features: newly credited alternate version with English text, audio commentary featuring film scholar Tony Rayns, "Carl Th. Dreyer" (1966) documentary by Jřrgen Roos chronicling Dreyer's career, visual essay by scholar Casper Tybjerg on Dreyer's influences in creating Vampyr, radio broadcast from 1958 of Dreyer reading an essay about filmmaking, new and improved English subtitle translation.

Photography, Rudolph Maté ; art direction, Hermann Warm ; music, Wolfgang Zeller. Photography, Rudolph Maté ; art direction, Hermann Warm ; music, Wolfgang Zeller.

Julian West (Nicolas de Gunzburg), Maurice Schutz, Rena Mandel, Sybille Schmitz, Jan Hieronimko, Henriette Gérard, Albert Bras, N. Babanini, Jane Mora.

Allan Gray is a young traveler who happens upon a remote castle, and starts seeing sinister, inexplicable sights.

MPAA rating: Not rated.


Blu-ray; region A; 4:3 presentation; LPCM 1.0. This is a Blu-ray disc made for Blu-ray disc players and will not play in standard DVD players.


Feature in German with German intertitles and optional English subtitles; special features in German with English intertitles and optional English subtitles.

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Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan, 1814-1873 --Film adaptations.
Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan, 1814-1873.


Supernatural--Drama.
Nightmares--Drama.
Vampires--Drama.
Nightmares.
Supernatural.
Vampires.


Drama.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Film adaptations.
Horror films.
Vampire films.
Vampire films.
Horror films.
Film adaptations.
Feature films--Germany
Feature films--France
Fiction films.

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