Dracula's Death

Dracula's Death (1921)

Drakula halála

The film is about a woman who experiences frightening visions after visiting an insane asylum where one of the inmates claims to be Count Dracula (here following the Hungarian spelling Drakula). She has trouble determining whether the inmate's visions are real or merely nightmares.

Date of release
1921-02-22
TMDB
8.5 / 10 (4)
Runtime
1h 5m
Genres
Thriller, Horror
Director
Károly Lajthay

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: Dracula

Drakula halála is an Austrian silent film that was co-written and directed by Károly Lajthay. The film was the first appearance of Count Dracula from Bram Stoker's novel Dracula (1897), though the film does not follow the plot of the novel.

Production

The Hungarian trade publication Képes Mozivilág wrote in 1921, where it was announced as translating the "basic ideas" of Stoker's Dracula (1897). Stoker's book was first published as a serial in Budapesti Hírlap and later published in Hungary as a novel. According to censorship records, the Lapa Film Studio produced Drakula halála. The director of the film was Károly Lajthay, whose film career consisted mostly of directing and acting.

Among the crew was Eduard Hoesch, who would shoot Drakula's interiors, though the film's credits suggest he was one of two cinematographers who worked on the film. The other was Lajos Gasser. No surviving records suggest the names of other crew members on the film. Among the cast was Paul Askonas as Drakula.

In December 1920, Lajthay shot some of the film's exteriors in and near Vienna, such as in the village of Melk. Beginning on 2 January 1921, he shot interior scenes at Corvin Film Studio in Budapest and returned to Vienna to shoot additional exteriors in the Wachau valley. During production, the film's title changed to Drakula halála.

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