A first-look at The Blood Countess has been revealed ahead of its world premiere at the Berlinale Special Gala on 16 February 2025.
From the seminal German filmmaker and visual artist Ulrike Ottinger comes THE BLOOD COUNTESS, a sumptuous adventure tale and bizarro black comedy soaked in crimson and pulsing with ancient bloodlust.
Decades after her mysterious disappearance, the Blood Countess reemerges in modern-day Vienna, where she reunites with her devoted underling, Hermione, to track down a dangerous book with the power to destroy all evil—including all vampires such as themselves.
The duo embarks on a scavenger hunt through the city’s magnificent historic sites and conscript the countess’s melancholic nephew—a vegetarian vampire named Bubi—and his psychotherapist as they expand their search to Bohemia. Meanwhile, a pair of vampirologists and a police inspector remain hot on their trail.
Morbidly funny and dazzlingly decadent, THE BLOOD COUNTESS is a reinvention of the vampire myth from one of world cinema’s most prodigious minds.
The Bloody Countess screens on Monday, February 16th @ 21:15 PM – Zoo Palast.
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