In late 15th-century Eastern Europe, Prince Vlad II’s bride is brutally murdered. As a result, he renounces God and damns Heaven itself. Cursed with eternal life, Vlad is reborn as Dracula, an immortal warlord who defies fate in a blood-soaked crusade to wrench his lost love back from death.
Production
15th-century battlefields to gothic Paris — Besson goes FULL period drama.
Acting
Caleb Landry Jones commits so hard to anguished vampire he might actually be cursed.
Costume
That armor-to-cape transformation deserves its own Oscar category.
Director
Luc Besson
Caleb Landry Jones
Vlad / Dracula
Zoë Bleu Sidel
Elisabeta / Mina
Christoph Waltz
Priest
Matilda De Angelis
Maria
Ewens Abid
Jonathan Harker
Guillaume de Tonquédec
Dumont
David Shields
Henry Spencer
Bertrand-Xavier Corbi
Captain Targol
Raphael Luce
Clerk Simon
Anne Kessler
Old Lady
Romain Levi
Captain Wernus
Jassem Mougari
Sultan Mehmed II
Thalia Besson
Isabelle de Touraine
Haymon Maria Buttinger
Cardinal
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This is Besson's first horror film since 'Angel-A' (2005) and his return to big-budget French cinema after years in Hollywood exile.
The film deliberately echoes Coppola's 1992 'Bram Stoker's Dracula' in its romantic tragedy structure, but swaps operatic excess for Besson's kinetic visual poetry.
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