Blood Countess<\/a>\u201d attracts inspiration from the life and legend of Countess Elizabeth B\u00e1thory, 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 \u201cThe Piano Teacher.\u201d The movie is presently in post-production.<\/p>\n\n\tThe forged is accomplished by Birgit Minichmayr (\u201cDaughters\u201d), Lars Eidinger (\u201cDying,\u201d \u201cPersonal Shopper\u201d), Thomas Schubert (\u201cAfire\u201d) and Andr\u00e9 Jung (\u201cThe Forger\u201d).<\/p>\n
\n\tHuppert performs the Countess Elizabeth B\u00e1thory (aka \u2018The Blood Countess\u2019), as she awakens from her lengthy magnificence sleep and emerges from the underworld. \u201cShe 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\u2019s 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,\u201d the synopsis reads.<\/p>\n
\n\tProducers are Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu (\u201cIngeborg Bachmann\u201d \u2013 Journey into the desert\u201d) of Amour Fou Vienna, Bady Minck (\u201cHinterland\u201d) of Amour Fou Luxembourg, and Bettina Brokemper of Heimatfilm (exec producer on \u201cThe Devil\u2019s Bath\u201d).<\/p>\n
\n\tThe key crew is lead by cinematographer Martin Gschlacht who notably labored on \u201cThe Devil\u2019s Bath\u201d which gained the Silver Bear on the Berlinale final yr; costume designer Jorge Jara (\u201cFreak Orlando\u201d) and manufacturing designer Christina Schaffer (\u201cThe Girl With a Pearl Earring\u201d).<\/p>\n
\n\tOttinger, whose greatest recognized movies embody \u201cMadame X \u2013 An Absolute Ruler,\u201d \u201cTicket of No Return\u201d and \u201cFreak Orlando,\u201d mentioned \u201cThis is the right time for the Blood Countess to wake up from her deep sleep and savor the present\u201d as a result of \u201cThe world is upside down and events are repeating themselves in an eerie way.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tMagnify\u2019s slate additionally consists of Gast\u00f3n Solnicki\u2019s \u201cThe Souffleur\u201d starring Willem Dafoe; \u201cFilipi\u00f1ana,\u201d a first-time characteristic by Rafael Manuel (with Film4); Berlin Generation winner \u201cThe
Botanist\u201d directed by newcomer Jing Yi. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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[ad_1] 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, \u201cThe Blood Countess,\u201d 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":141322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[7896,3040,10241,10243,2949,2948,388,10240,135,10242],"class_list":{"0":"post-141320","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood","8":"tag-aka","9":"tag-blood","10":"tag-conchita","11":"tag-countess","12":"tag-huppert","13":"tag-isabelle","14":"tag-joins","15":"tag-neuwirth","16":"tag-tom","17":"tag-wurst"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}