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Tom Neuwirth aka Conchita Wurst, the daring Austrian bearded diva who gained the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest, will make her performing debut in a twisted vampire thriller, “The Blood Countess,” starring reverse Isabelle Huppert.
Magnify handles international and U.S. gross sales rights (excluding Austria, Ex-Yugoslavia, Germany, and Luxembourg) on the new title and has unveiled a hanging first-look picture (pictured) from the movie forward of the Cannes movie market the place Austin Kennedy, head of worldwide gross sales, and Phoebe Liebling, supervisor of worldwide gross sales, can be pursuing offers.
Directed by famend German New Wave filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger, “The Blood Countess” attracts inspiration from the life and legend of Countess Elizabeth Báthory, the notorious Sixteenth-century Hungarian noblewoman which is performed by Huppert. The screenplay was penned by Ottinger and Elfriede Jelinek, the Nobel Prize in Literature winner and acclaimed creator of “The Piano Teacher.” The movie is presently in post-production.
The forged is accomplished by Birgit Minichmayr (“Daughters”), Lars Eidinger (“Dying,” “Personal Shopper”), Thomas Schubert (“Afire”) and André Jung (“The Forger”).
Huppert performs the Countess Elizabeth Báthory (aka ‘The Blood Countess’), as she awakens from her lengthy magnificence sleep and emerges from the underworld. “She and her devoted maid (Birgit Minichmayr) embark on a baroque quest through Vienna to recover the red elixir of life. The book, if found and read by the vampire’s enemies, threatens their vampire realm. Hot on their heels are a vegetarian nephew (Thomas Schubert), his psychotherapist (Lars Eidinger), two vampirologists, a police inspector, and more lively characters in this twisted and humorous vampire tale,” the synopsis reads.
Producers are Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu (“Ingeborg Bachmann” – Journey into the desert”) of Amour Fou Vienna, Bady Minck (“Hinterland”) of Amour Fou Luxembourg, and Bettina Brokemper of Heimatfilm (exec producer on “The Devil’s Bath”).
The key crew is lead by cinematographer Martin Gschlacht who notably labored on “The Devil’s Bath” which gained the Silver Bear on the Berlinale final yr; costume designer Jorge Jara (“Freak Orlando”) and manufacturing designer Christina Schaffer (“The Girl With a Pearl Earring”).
Ottinger, whose greatest recognized movies embody “Madame X – An Absolute Ruler,” “Ticket of No Return” and “Freak Orlando,” mentioned “This is the right time for the Blood Countess to wake up from her deep sleep and savor the present” as a result of “The world is upside down and events are repeating themselves in an eerie way.”
Magnify’s slate additionally consists of Gastón Solnicki’s “The Souffleur” starring Willem Dafoe; “Filipiñana,” a first-time characteristic by Rafael Manuel (with Film4); Berlin Generation winner “The
Botanist” directed by newcomer Jing Yi.