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Vampyr /

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: CC2815BD | Criterion CollectionLanguage: German Original language: German Subtitle language: English Series: Criterion collection ; 437.Publisher: [New York, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, [2017]Edition: Blu-ray special editionDescription: 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)Content type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
  • text
Media type:
  • video
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1681433656
  • 9781681433653
Related works:
  • Motion picture adaptation of (work): Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan, 1814-1873. Carmilla
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.43/72 23
LOC classification:
  • PN1997 .V358 2017
Production credits:
  • Photography, Rudolph Maté ; art direction, Hermann Warm ; music, Wolfgang Zeller.
Cast: Julian West (Nicolas de Gunzburg), Maurice Schutz, Rena Mandel, Sybille Schmitz, Jan Hieronimko, Henriette Gérard, Albert Bras, N. Babanini, Jane Mora.Summary: Allan Gray is a young traveler who happens upon a remote castle, and starts seeing sinister, inexplicable sights.
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Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Status Date due Barcode
Video Recording Carleton University, AVRC SP456 - Collections Room BLU-00437 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 1605031456X

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 Jørgen 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.

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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