'Julian West' (Nicolas de Gunzberg)
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Maurice Schutz
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Rena Mandel
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Sybille Schmitz
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Jan Hieronimko
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Henriette Gérard
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Albert Bras
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A. Babanini
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Jane Mora
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Georges Boldin
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'Julian West' (Nicolas de Gunzberg) | Maurice Schutz | Rena Mandel | |||
Sybille Schmitz | Jan Hieronimko | Henriette Gérard | |||
Albert Bras | A. Babanini | Jane Mora | |||
Georges Boldin |
'Julian West' (Nicolas de Gunzberg) | Maurice Schutz | ||
Rena Mandel | Sybille Schmitz | ||
Jan Hieronimko | Henriette Gérard | ||
Albert Bras | A. Babanini | ||
Jane Mora | Georges Boldin |
Traveller Allan Gray (arrestingly depicted by Julian West, aka the secretive real-life Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg) arrives at a countryside inn seemingly beckoned by haunted forces. His growing acquaintance with the family who reside there soon opens up a network of uncanny associations between the dead and the living, of ghostly lore and demonology, which pull Gray ever deeper into an unsettling, and upsetting, mystery.
At its core: troubled Gisèle, chaste daughter and sexual incarnation, portrayed by the great, cursed Sybille Schmitz (Diary of a Lost Girl, and inspiration for Fassbinder’s Veronika Voss.) Before the candles of Vampyr exhaust themselves, Allan Gray and the viewer alike come eye-to-eye with Fate — in the face of dear dying Sybille, in the blasphemed bodies of horrific bat-men, in the charged and mortal act of asphyxiation — eye-to-eye, then, with Death — the supreme vampire.