Dracula : pages from a virgin's diary

The Resource Dracula : pages from a virgin's diary
Label
Dracula : pages from a virgin's diary
Title remainder
pages from a virgin's diary
Statement of responsibility
Zeitgeist Films ; a Vonnie Von Helmolt, Mark Godden and Guy Maddin production ; produced by Vonnie Von Helmolt ; directed by Guy Maddin ; a co-production with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet ; produced in association with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Title variation
Pages from a virgin's diary
Creator
Contributor
Subject
Genre
Language
  • eng
  • eng
  • eng
Summary
Prepare yourself: This is unlike any other Dracula film you have ever seen. It is probably unlike any movie you have ever seen. This film is an adaptation of a ballet first performed by the Winnipeg Royal Ballet in 1998, choreographed by Mark Godden to the music of Gustav Mahler. Like a newly discovered treasure from the silent era, the story is driven purely by images, with occasional sound effects, intertitles, color tinting, and dramatic splashes of red over washed-out black-and-white photography. Distilled down to just a few powerful scenes, the subject is the emotional impact of the vampire's invasion. Lush and dreamlike, voluptuous, whimsical, and exceedingly strange, the film is surprisingly faithful to the 1897 novel, featuring a Dracula who embodies demonic sexual hysteria imported into repressed Victorian England
Cataloging source
ORC
Credits note
Cinematography, Paul Suderman ; editor, Deco Dawson ; music, Gustav Mahler ; design & art direction, Deanne Rohde ; costume design, Paul Daigle
Dewey number
782.14
Intended audience
MPAA Rating: Not rated
Language note
Silent with music and intertitles in English
LC call number
GV1790
LC item number
.D73 2004 DVD
PerformerNote
Zhang Wei-Qiang (Dracula), Tara Birtwhistle (Lucy), David Moroni (Van Helsing), CindyMarie Small (Mina), Johnny Wright (Harker), Stephane Leonard (Holmwood), Matthew Johnson (Seward), Keir Knight (Morris), Brent Neale (Renfield), Stephanie Ballard (Mrs. Westernra)
Technique
not applicable
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