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A drifter obsessed with the supernatural stumbles upon an inn where a severely ill adolescent girl is slowly becoming a vampire.
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Allan Grey
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Der Schlossherr (The Lord of the Manor)
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Gisèle
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Léone
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Der Dorfarzt (The Village Doctor)
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Die alte Frau vom Friedhof (The Old Woman from the Cemetery) (as Henriette Gérard)
Albert Bras ...
Der alte Diener (The Old Servant)
N. Babanini ...
Seine Frau (His Wife)
Jane Mora ...
Die Krankenschwester (The Nurse)
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Limping Man

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Carl Theodor Dreyer ... (as Carl Th. Dreyer)

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Sheridan Le Fanu ... (based on a book by) (as J. Sheridan Le Fanu)
 
Christen Jul ... (screenplay) and
Carl Theodor Dreyer ... (screenplay) (as Carl Th. Dreyer)

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Carl Theodor Dreyer ... producer (uncredited)
Julian West ... producer (uncredited)

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Wolfgang Zeller

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Rudolph Maté
Louis Née ... (uncredited)

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Tonka Taldy ... (uncredited)

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Hermann Warm

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Preben Birck ... assistant director (uncredited)
Ralph Christian Holm ... assistant director (uncredited)
Eliane Tayar ... assistant director (uncredited)

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César Silvagni ... set designer (uncredited)

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Hans Bittmann ... sound recordist (as Dr. Hans Bittman)
Paul Falkenberg ... sound editor

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Henri Armand ... special effects (uncredited)

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Paul Falkenberg ... dialogue director
Jorgen S. Jorgensen ... presenter (uncredited)
Max Schreck ... voice dubbing: Maurice Schutz (uncredited)
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Plot Summary

Traveler Allan Gray arrives in the village of Courtempierre and takes lodgings in a small inn. Gray has a great interest in the supernatural, particularly vampires. He's barely settled in when he feels a sinister force descending upon him. In the night an old man enters his room to tell him 'she must not die'. One of the old man's daughters, Leone, has been bitten by a vampire. In order to break the curse, Gray and Leone's sister Gisele must find the original vampire and drive a stake through her heart. Written by garykmcd

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Also Known As
  • Vampyr - Der Traum des Allan Grey (Germany)
  • Vampyr, ou l'étrange aventure de David Gray (France)
  • The Vampire (United States)
  • Castle of Doom (United States)
  • Not Against the Flesh (United States)
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Trivia For much of the cast, this was their only film appearance since they were not professional actors. Henriette Gérard who played the vampire was a French widow, Jan Hieronimko who played the village doctor was a Polish journalist, Rena Mandel who played Gisèle was an artist's model. Even Julian West (real name: Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg) who played Allan Grey, was French-born member of Russian nobility who agreed to finance the film in exchange for the leading part. (He later emigrated to America where he became a powerful fashion journalist and mentor to designers like Calvin Klein.) See more »
Goofs At exactly 16 minutes (in the Criterion DVD) as the camera pans right, there is a reflection in a glass window of the camera operator cranking the camera. See more »
Movie Connections Edited into Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1943). See more »
Quotes Gisèle: Why does the doctor always come at night?
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