Anemia (1986)

Anaemia

A high-ranking officer of the Italian Communist Party discovers he is a vampire and leaves his position, retreating to the abandoned residence of his deceased grandfather. There he finds the diary of his grandfather that gives him the answers he needs.

Date of release
1986-01-01
TMDB
10.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 24m
Genres
Horror, TV Movie
Director
Alberto Abruzzese, Achille Pisanti

Casting

Interesting facts

Anemia is a 1986 Italian film directed and written by Alberto Abruzzese and Achille Pisanti based on Abruzzese's novelette Anemia. Storia di un vampiro communista. The film was shown at the Venice Film Festival in 1986.

Production

Prior to any development on the film, Alberto Abruzzese taught at the University of Naples and published several books since 1972 was referred to by historian and critic Roberto Curti as one of Italy's "most highly reputed sociologists and semiologists". Abruzzese's novel titled Anemia. Storia di un vampiro communista was published in Italy in December 1984.

Anemia was shot in Rome and off the Amalfi Coast. The film included references to Gothic fiction including Nosferatu and The Castle of Otranto. Abruzzese considered the film a "hypersensible journey among the literary and cinematic genres a game of displacements".

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