Vampyr

For the final survey were used 3 tons of this wheat flour.

The credits stated that the story based on "Vampire" and go back to two stories from this book — "Carmilla" and "the Mystery of the hotel "flying dragon". However, according to modern researchers, the plot of the film is largely a figment of the imagination of the Dreyer.

Begin work on "Vampire" came at the end of the silent film era. Much of the information in the film is the old-fashioned way-through title cards (including the pages of a book about vampires, which moves the main character). To explore sound technology, which was not well known to the French, Dreyer travelled to London, where he met with Danish writers Christen Ulam. Together they wrote the screenplay "Vampire".

When Dreyer returned to France, the artist Valentine Hugo introduced him to the fashionable socialite, Baron Gunzburg, who dreamed of an acting career. Nicolas de Gunzburg promised to find funding on the condition that he will perform in the movie the main role.

"Vampire" was filmed outside the Studio pavilions, which at that time was a rarity. Full-scale shooting took place in 1930 and 1931 in a remote village Contanier (Department of the Loire).

The performer of the role of the sinister Dr. Dreyer found in the Paris metro.

The majority of workers in the film, the actors were not professionals. With the exception of Sybille Schmitz, who plays Leon, and Maurice Schütz, with whom Dreyer had worked on a film about Joan of Arc.

The operator Mat got from drayer instructed to adhere megafonovskoy manners of shooting, so that was depicted veiled light haze, as if in a dream. To achieve this effect at a distance of about meters from the camera was stretched transparent fabric. When mounting from the film was cut a few scenes that caused objections of his natural.

Dubbed "the Vampire" was the end of the film at the Berlin studios of Universum Film AG. From the original group of actors in the voice acting and the involvement of Gunzburg and Schmitz. The film was dubbed in three languages — English, French and German. Of these versions in a relatively completely preserved only German.

"Vampire" was not a success and did not justify invested in its creation tools. Especially hostile reception waiting for him in Vienna. Ordinary viewers could not understand in a fragmentary plot of "Vampire", while aesthetes ignored it because of squeamish to plebeian genre of horror film. After this fiasco, Dreyer appealed to the clinic Jeanne d'arc with complaints of a nervous breakdown. Over the next 12 years, he has not shot a single feature film.

Until recently, the audience was available only to low-quality, heavily trimmed version of the tape from which it was difficult to understand her story. In the summer of 2008 restored by German experts "Vampire" was released on DVD just two companies — the Criterion Collection (two discs contain almost all of the surviving film footage) and Eureka Films (with a commentary by Director Guillermo del Toro).

A film by Carl Theodor Dreyer (1932), filmed in the tradition of German expressionism in France at the expense of Nicolas de Gunzburg, who under the pseudonym "Julian West" has played a major role Allen gray.