The film is set primarily in 19th century  Wismar ,  Germany  and  Transylvania , and was conceived as a stylistic  remake  of the 1922 German  Dracula  adaptation,  Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens . It stars  Klaus Kinski  as  Count Dracula ,  Isabelle Adjani  as Lucy Harker,  Bruno Ganz as  Jonathan Harker