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The Blood Countess

The Blood Countess

Die Blutgräfin Director Ulrike Ottinger

1 hr. 59 min. · Austria, Luxembourg, Germany, 2026 · Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Detective, Dark Comedy · German, French · Subtitles: Lithuanian, English · Pegi 13

About the film

German cinema icon Ulrike Ottinger offers a singular, ironic reimagining of the vampire myth, with Isabelle Huppert as the hedonistic vampire Countess Elizabeth Báthory, revelling in a life of eternal beauty. Every 25 years, she awakens from a deep sleep to claim new victims across Austria. This time, alongside the delectable red elixir, she is searching for a book which, legend has it, can turn a vampire back into a human if its pages are moistened with a vampire’s tears. Together with her devoted maid Hermine, the Countess sets out to find and destroy the dangerous volume, whose power could eradicate all evil - including vampires like themselves. Their quest becomes a treasure hunt through Vienna’s magnificent historic sites. They draw the Countess’s melancholic nephew Rudi Bubi, a vegetarian vampire, and his psychotherapist into the search; as the trail leads into Bohemia, their eccentric circle widens further. Yet a pair of vampirologists and a police inspector remain hot on their heels. Ottinger reinvents the vampire myth as a sumptuous adventure filled with macabre black humour and a deep affection for Vienna’s architecture.
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Details

Running time
1 hr. 59 min.
Country, year
Austria, Luxembourg, Germany, 2026
Genre
Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Detective, Dark Comedy
Language
German, French
Subtitles
Lithuanian, English
Age rating
Pegi 13

Credits

Director
Ulrike Ottinger
Screenplay
Ulrike Ottinger, Elfriede Jelinek
Producers
Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu, Bady Minck
Cinematography
Martin Gschlacht
Cast
Isabelle Huppert, Lars Eidinger, Birgit Minichmayr, Karl Markovics, Noah Saavedra
More information
www.imdb.com
Ulrike Ottinger

Director

Ulrike Ottinger

Ulrike Ottinger studied painting and photography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. While living in Paris, she attended lectures in ethnology, religious studies and art history at the Sorbonne. She moved to Berlin in 1973, where filmmaking became the central focus of her work. Ottinger gained international recognition with the experimental feature Madame X: An Absolute Ruler (1977). A remarkably versatile artist, she has worked as a director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, production and costume designer, painter and photographer.

Screenings

15 screenings in 8 cities.

  1. Friday, November 6 18:30 Forum Cinemas Vingis · Hall 1 Tickets
  2. Saturday, November 7 20:20 Paupio Pasaka · Paupio salė Tickets
  3. Monday, November 9 20:50 Skalvija · Hall 1 Tickets
  4. Wednesday, November 11 20:50 Forum Cinemas Vingis · Hall 10 Tickets
  5. Sunday, November 15 13:30 Forum Cinemas Vingis · Hall 9 Tickets